Administration’s Proposed Budget Would Boost EEOC, Trim DOL. President Donald Trump has released the administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2027 proposed budget. Although the U.S. Congress sets federal spending levels, the president’s budget outlines the administration’s priorities, thereby providing guidance to federal appropriators. For the Buzz, the FY 2027 budget provides insight into the administration’s labor and employment policy priorities. For example:

• The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) would receive about a 26 percent cut to its budget, despite receiving a funding boost in the previous fiscal year. Sub-agencies such as the Wage and Hour Division and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration would be subject to these cuts.
• Further, the remaining elements of the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that enforce the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act would be absorbed into an expanded Office of Civil Rights.
• The DOL’s Women’s Bureau—which survived elimination last year—would be eliminated.
• The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), currently housed within the Employment and Training Administration, would be elevated to an independent DOL sub-agency in order to “enable OFLC to administer immigration and migration policies, regulations, and programs in a manner that optimizes performance, minimizes unnecessary use of resources, and ensures resiliency and continuity of...

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