WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will send its fiscal 2027 budget request to Congress on April 3, an Office of Management and Budget spokesperson confirmed today.
President Donald Trump has indicated plans to request $1.5 trillion in defense funding in FY27, but it is unclear whether that sum will stem purely from the base budget, or whether it could include money from a new reconciliation bill or a supplemental funding request for ongoing Iran operations.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to questions about when budget would be delivered to lawmakers. Bloomberg first reported the release date.
Senior defense officials have provided few specifics about how the Pentagon could approach the FY27 request.
Jules Hurst, who is performing the duties of the Pentagon’s comptroller, recently explained that it is “pencils down” on options for a $1.5 trillion defense spending request for next year, but said the Trump administration is still fleshing out how that total will be reached.
“We’re in the final stages” of cementing the budget, Hurst told Breaking Defense at the McAleese Defense Programs conference on March 17. “We’ll keep the FY27 budget intact, and then if there’s a supplemental, it would be separate from the budget.”
Later that week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the department had approached the White House to consider a $200 billion supplemental request to pay for operations in Iran and refill American munition stockpiles. That figure, he added, “could move.”
“Obviously it takes … money to kill bad guys, so we’re going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we’re properly funded for what’s been done, for what we may have to do in the future, [to] ensure that our ammunition is … refilled, and not just refilled, but above and beyond,” Hegseth told reporters March 19.
Earlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham announced that Republicans would move forward with an attempt to pass a second reconciliation bill after last year’s successful push, which included $150 billion for defense.
“The purpose of the second reconciliation bill is to make sure there is adequate funding to secure our homeland and to support our men and women in the military who are fighting so bravely,” Graham said. “More funding will mean they can complete the task assigned and keep America safe – which is money well spent.”
House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., told Breaking Defense in February that he was advocating for about $450 billion for defense in a second reconciliation bill.
Last year, the Defense Department requested $848.3 billion in discretionary funds for FY26, flat with the enacted full-year continuing resolution for FY25. Congress ultimately in February of this year passed a defense spending bill that topped the request by $8.6 billion. While Pentagon officials touted the budget as its first ever $1 trillion request, that included funding from the first reconciliation effort.
