FY2021 Discretionary budget authority
(billions of dollars)
Departments 2020 Enacted1 2021 Request1
Percent Change
Agriculture 2 $23.8 $21.8
-8.2%
Commerce 3 $12.9 $8.1
-37.3%
Defense 3 $633.3 $636.4
0.5%
Education $72.2 $66.6
-7.8%
Energy $38.5 $35.4
-8.1%
Health & Human Services 4 $105.8 $96.4
-9%
Homeland Security 5 $48.1 $49.7
3.4%
Housing & Urban Development (Excluding Receipts) $56.5 $47.9
-15.2%
Interior $14.7 $12.7
-13.4%
Justice $32.4 $31.7
-2.3%
Labor $12.4 $11
-10.7%
State and Other International Programs 2,6 $47.7 $44.1
-7.7%
Transportation $24.8 $21.6
-12.9%
Treasury 5 $15.5 $15.7
1.5%
Veterans Affairs $92.7 $105
13.3%
Major Agencies 2020 Enacted 2021 Request
Percent Change
Corps of Engineers $7.7 $6
-22%
Environmental Protection Agency $9.1 $6.7
-26.5%
NASA $22.6 $25.2
11.9%
Small Business Administration $0.8 $0.7
-11.1%
Social Security Administration4 $9.2 $9
-1.8%
1The 2019 actual and 2020 enacted levels include changes that occur after appropriations are enacted that are part of budget execution such as transfers, reestimates, and the rebasing as mandatory any changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) enacted in appropriations bills. The 2019 and 2020 levels are adjusted to include OMB’s scoring of CHIMPs enacted in 2019 and 2020 appropriations Acts for base programs for a better illustrative comparison with the 2021 request.
2Funding for Food for Peace Title II Grants is included in the State and Other International Programs total. Although the funds are appropriated to the Department of Agriculture, the funds are administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
3The large decrease in 2021 for the Department of Commerce is mostly attributable to the ramp down of the 2020 Decennial Census.
4Funding from the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance trust funds for administrative expenses incurred by SSA that support the Medicare program are included in the HHS total and not in the SSA total.
5The funding totals for 2019 actual and 2020 enacted are comparatively adjusted to reflect the Administration’s 2021 Budget proposal to shift the U.S. Secret Service from DHS to the Department of the Treasury.
6The State and International Programs total includes funding for the Department of State, USAID, Treasury International, and 12 international agencies.
7At the time the Budget was finalized, Public Law 116–113, the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Agreement Implementation Act had not been enacted. As a result, the Budget includes a Government-wide allowance to represent the discretionary appropriations included in this proposal.


Source: Office of Management and Budget