USDA's budget, mandatory and discretionary.

USDA's topline from the FY2027 Budget Summary, decomposed two ways: New Budget Authority (mandatory + discretionary + supplemental) and Outlays (mandatory + discretionary). Each band re-adds, per fiscal year, to the published USDA total. The mandatory entitlements — SNAP, Child Nutrition, crop insurance, the farm-commodity programs — are reported separately and dwarf the appropriated discretionary base.

FY27 discretionary BA

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~$20.7B precise

FY27 mandatory BA

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entitlements + farm

FY27 total outlays

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mandatory + discretionary

FY27 discretionary outlays

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Mandatory program anchors — kept strictly separate ($ in millions)

USDA Budget Summary agency tables · dwarfs the discretionary base

Account	FY25	FY26	FY27

SNAP alone is the single largest USDA program. These mandatory accounts are reported here for scale and are never summed into the discretionary headline.

Discretionary program anchors ($ in millions)

WIC is the largest discretionary program