NASA's money — by account and mission, discretionary and mandatory never conflated.

Office of the Chief Financial Officer · NASA

NASA is funded almost entirely through annual discretionaryappropriations, organized by account and mission directorate — Exploration, Space Operations, Science, Aeronautics, Space Technology, and the rest. The FY2027 President's Budget Request proposes a sharp reduction from the FY2026 enacted level. This monitor shows it exactly as the source states, validates every account to the published NASA Total to the dollar, and keeps the separate WFTC mandatory appropriations for Mars and Artemis strictly apart.

Discretionary · FY2027

The annual appropriations — the “NASA Total”

NASA Total budget authorityall appropriation accounts—

FY2026 enactedprior year—

Request vs. FY2026total budget authority—

Mandatory (WFTC) · kept separate

Special appropriations — Mars / Artemis / Moon-to-Mars

WFTC program totalavailable through FY2032—

FY2027 planned obligationof the multi-year program—

Folded into NASA Total?Working Families Tax Cut Act, P.L. 119-21never

The discretionary “NASA Total” is the agency's annual appropriations. The WFTC figures are special mandatoryappropriations from Section 40005 of the Working Families Tax Cut Act (P.L. 119-21) — $9.995B available through FY2032 for Mars, Artemis, and Moon-to-Mars, reported as planned obligations by fiscal year. The two frames are never summed into a single “NASA budget” number.

The discretionary budget, by appropriation account — FY2027 request vs. FY2026 enacted

$ in millions · WFTC mandatory excluded

Solid bar = FY2027 request; faint bar behind it = FY2026 enacted. Exploration is the only account that rises; Science falls the most; the Office of STEM Engagement is proposed for termination. Each is shown exactly as the source states, neutrally.