Natural Resources and Environment
$84.7 billion of gross federal outlays were reported under the Natural Resources and Environment heading in fiscal year 2026, the 12 largest of 18 budget functions. 13 agencies report under it.
American Factbook Research
Identifiers
- Budget function
- Natural Resources and Environment
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. | $84,669,553,916USD, gross |
|---|---|
| Obligations · FY2026 | $89,819,392,811USD |
| Rank among budget functions · FY2026 | 12 of 18by outlays |
| Share of all budget functions · FY2026 | 1.0%percent of outlays under every heading |
| Agencies reporting under it · FY20264 of them report this function and are not in the award table, so they appear below by their top-tier code with no name. | 13agencies |
Agencies reporting under this heading
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| Rank | Agency | Outlays |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 096 | $25,524,220,962 |
| 2 | Department of the Interior | $23,105,008,949 |
| 3 | Environmental Protection Agency | $14,696,825,693 |
| 4 | Department of Agriculture | $13,881,589,541 |
| 5 | Department of Commerce | $6,649,193,872 |
| 6 | 512 | $289,183,722 |
| 7 | Department of State | $255,640,530 |
| 8 | Department of Homeland Security | $184,592,192 |
| 9 | Department of Defense | $55,571,019 |
| 10 | United States Chemical Safety Board | $10,911,862 |
| 11 | 306 | $9,674,073 |
| 12 | Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation | $4,631,038 |
| 13 | 387 | $2,510,464 |
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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