| Department of the Interior (DOI)
|
|---|
| Program Name
| $ Change
from 2025
Enacted
(in millions)
| Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
|
|---|
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
|
|---|
| Bureau of Reclamation and the Central
Utah Project
| -609
| The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project.
|
| Operation of the National Park System
| -900
| The Budget would
transfer most properties to State-level management. Achieving a $900 million cut to operations would require eliminating funding for roughly 350 park sites, 75 percent of the total.
|
| NPS Historic Preservation Fund
| -158
| The Budget eliminates almost all funding except for projects in partnership with
HBCUs.
|
| NPS Construction
| -73
| This reduction complements the Administration’s goals transferring most parks to State and tribal governments.
|
| NPS National Recreation and
Preservation
| -77
|
|
| Bureau of Indian Affairs Programs that
Support Tribal Self-Governance and
Tribal Communities
| -617
| The Budget eliminates the Indian
Guaranteed Loan program for tribal business development. The Budget also terminates the Indian Land Consolidation
Program. In addition, the Budget also
reduces funding for programs that directly fund tribal operations such as roads, housing, and social
services.
|
| Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Public
Safety and Justice
| -107
| The Budget cuts the tribal law enforcement program by 20 percent.
|
| Bureau of Indian Education
Construction
| -187
| The Budget eliminates funding for construction of tribal schools.
|
| U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Surveys, Investigations, and Research
programs
| -564
| USGS provides science information on natural hazards, ecosystems, water, energy and mineral
resources, and mapping of Earth’s features. The Budget eliminates programs that provide grants to
universities and crucial climate science initiatives and instead focuses on support for minerals and fossil fuel extraction.
|
| Bureau of Land Management
Conservation Programs
| -198
| The Budget
proposes deep reductions. The Budget also reduces the Wildlife
and Aquatic Habitat Management program.
|
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(USFWS) State, Tribal, and NGO
Conservation Grant Programs
| -170
| The Budget eliminates USFWS grant programs that fund conservation of species managed by States, Tribes,
and other nations.
|
| Renewable Energy Programs
| -80
| The Budget proposes to eliminate support for renewable energy deployment.
|
| USFWS Ecological Services
| -37
| USFWS’ Ecological Services program and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Office of
Protected Resources are jointly responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act and the
Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Budget consolidates these two programs into a single program
housed within DOI with significantly reduced funding.
|
| Federal Wildland Fire Service
(consolidation of USDA and DOI
Wildland Fire Management programs
under a unified agency within DOI)
| --
| Federal wildfire risk mitigation and suppression responsibilities currently are split across five
agencies in two departments: the U.S. Forest Service in USDA and BIA, Bureau of Land
Management, USFWS, and NPS in DOI. The Budget
consolidates the Federal wildland fire responsibilities into a single new Federal Wildland Fire Service at
DOI, including transferring USDA’s current wildland fire management responsibilities.
|
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
|
|---|
| Program Name
| $ Change Enacted
from 2025
(in millions)
| Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
|
|---|
| Increases
|
| Drinking Water Programs
| +9
| The Budget provides $124 million in funding for the drinking water mission at EPA. The $9 million
increase from the 2025 enacted level is to equip EPA with funds to respond to drinking
water disasters.
|
| Indian Reservation Drinking Water Program
| +27
| The Budget increases funding for Tribes to retain access to funding for drinking water and
wastewater infrastructure on their lands, with a total level of $31 million for the grant program.
|
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
|
|---|
| Clean and Drinking Water State
Revolving Loan Funds
| -2,460
| The Budget provides the
decreased funding level of $305 million total.
|
| Categorical Grants
| -1,006
| The Budget includes the
elimination of 16 categorical grants, and maintains funding at 2025 enacted levels for Tribes.
|
| Hazardous Substance Superfund
| -254
| The IIJA and
the Inflation Reduction Act helped finance the Superfund program.
|
| Office of Research and Development
| -235
| The Budget puts an end to research grants, environmental justice work,
climate research, and modeling that influences regulations. The Budget provides $281 million.
|
| Environmental Justice
| -100
| EPA’s environmental justice program is eliminated in line with the vision the President set forth in
Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and
Preferencing,” and Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
|
| Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
(DERA) Grants
| -90
| This program is eliminated.
|
| Atmospheric Protection Program
| -100
| The Atmospheric Protection Program imposes climate change regulations. This
program is eliminated in the 2026 Budget.
|
| Small Agency Eliminations
|
|---|
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
|
|---|
- 400 Years of African American
History Commission
- Corporation for National and
Community Service (operating as
AmeriCorps)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service
- Institute of Museum and Library
Sciences
- Inter-American Foundation
- Marine Mammal Commission
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the
Humanities
- Neighborhood Reinvestment
Corporation
- U.S. African Development Foundation
- U.S. Agency for Global Media
- U.S. Institute of Peace
- U.S. Interagency Council on
Homelessness
- Woodrow Wilson Center
- Presidio Trust
| -3,586
| The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small
agencies. Agencies in bold are in this appropriations bill.
|
- Delta Regional Authority
- Denali Commission
- Northern Border Regional
Commission
- Southeast Crescent Regional
Commission
- Southwest Border Regional
Commission
- Great Lakes Authority
| The Budget eliminates six small
regional commissions. The Budget continues
funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
|
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian
Relocation (ONHIR)
| -2
| The budget closes this office.
|