The Trump administration has proposed a 36 percent cut to the Army Corps of Engineers’ water infrastructure budget, in a plan that seeks to accelerate permitting and would zero out funding for new construction projects.
The fiscal 2027 budget would allocate $6.7 billion to the Army Corps’ civil works program, heavily favoring construction projects in the Southeast and Midwest and providing only $15 million for coastal flooding and storms.
But while the budget proposes cuts across most Army Corps programs, one exception is the agency’s permitting division, known as the regulatory program.
The program that oversees Clean Water Act permits would receive $223 million, slightly more than the $221 million in funding Congress approved for fiscal 2026.
