The White House on Friday requested a bump in DOT discretionary funding for fiscal 2027 — $26.6 billion total, or a roughly $1.6 billion increase, according to a summary from the administration.
Congress in an appropriations package passed earlier this year gave the department $25.1 billion in discretionary funding for fiscal 2026, when accounting for rescissions.
The request doesn’t seek a major infusion of cash for DOT’s air traffic control modernization project. Instead, it aims to keep FAA’s Facilities and Equipment, or F&E, account at $4 billion — the same level as fiscal 2026, which was an increase compared to fiscal 2025.
The Trump administration also aims to cut transit grant funding, target unobligated electric vehicle charging money in the 2021 infrastructure law and reduce discretionary dollars for the Essential Air Service, a popular program in rural states.
