Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
$153.0 billion of gross federal outlays were reported under the Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services heading in fiscal year 2026, the 10 largest of 18 budget functions. Department of Education accounts for 77.6% of it.
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Identifiers
- Budget function
- Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
The record
| Outlays · FY2026Gross outlays, not net. At this grain they are routinely negative for some agencies, which is why nothing here calls them money spent. | $152,966,660,048USD, gross |
|---|---|
| Obligations · FY2026 | $123,493,087,685USD |
| Rank among budget functions · FY2026 | 10 of 18by outlays |
| Share of all budget functions · FY2026 | 1.7%percent of outlays under every heading |
| Agencies reporting under it · FY20265 of them report this function and are not in the award table, so they appear below by their top-tier code with no name. | 19agencies |
Agencies reporting under this heading
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| Rank | Agency | Outlays |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Education | $118,627,860,564 |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $16,060,944,676 |
| 3 | Department of Labor | $12,263,812,274 |
| 4 | Department of the Treasury | $3,296,329,303 |
| 5 | Department of the Interior | $1,142,263,339 |
| 6 | Corporation for National and Community Service | $924,502,344 |
| 7 | National Labor Relations Board | $229,295,028 |
| 8 | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $181,769,168 |
| 9 | National Endowment for the Arts | $125,197,301 |
| 10 | National Endowment for the Humanities | $52,762,115 |
| 11 | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | $23,011,317 |
| 12 | 421 | $11,722,650 |
| 13 | Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled | $9,559,188 |
| 14 | 323 | $5,000,000 |
| 15 | 372 | $4,998,660 |
| 16 | Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation | $3,766,883 |
| 17 | 313 | $1,711,225 |
| 18 | 381 | $1,568,614 |
| 19 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $585,398 |
An agency with a top-tier code and no name reports this function to the account data and does not appear in the award table the names come from. Its figure is the publisher’s; the missing name is ours.
What this data cannot show
- A budget function is reported per agency and never nationally. The figure at the top of this page is a sum over the rows in the table below, not a total the publisher published.
- Gross outlays are not net outlays and neither is money spent in the sense a reader means. An agency’s figure can be negative when it recovers more than it pays out under a heading in the period.
- The fiscal year is not over. These are the figures reported so far.
- Budget functions describe purpose, not programme. Money under one heading can pay for work a reader would file under several, and one programme can appear under more than one heading in different agencies.
Related
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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