White House Eyes Major Budget Boost for BIS
The Trump administration wants Congress to increase funding for the Bureau of Industry and Security by $132 million or 77% in FY 2026 to prevent sensitive U.S. technology from falling into the wrong hands, a senior administration official said May 2.
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Most of the increase, $122 million, would go toward export enforcement, the official told Export Compliance Daily,clarifying a briefly worded proposal included in the administration’s 46-page preliminary budget request for the federal government. The White House Office of Management and Budget said it provided the preliminary request to Congress in advance of President Donald Trump’s “full fiscal plan.”
For BIS, the $303 million budget request for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 is a dramatic change from late March, when the administration reduced the bureau’s FY 2025 funding by 10.5% or $20 million, to $171 million, as part of a broader cut to national security programs (see 2503260050). Senate Democrats criticized the BIS decrease, saying it would impair the bureau's export enforcement (see 2503270005).
In mid-April, the House Select Committee on China called for giving BIS more money for its growing export control responsibilities (see 2504170040).