President Trump’s latest budget proposal would cut the Department of Labor’s current $13.3 billion budget by 26 percent, resulting in agencies like OSHA, Wage and Hour, and MSHA each losing tens of millions of dollars. Similar to last year’s proposal to reduce the budget to $8.8 billion, the 2027 budget includes many of the same controversial provisions that were rejected in the spending bill passed earlier this year, such as eliminating the Job Corps, a program that provides vocational training for low-income youth. Most of the reductions would come from the Department’s personnel compensation budget.
—Maya Levkovitz, Onlabor.org
