The Donald Trump administration rolled out its very high-level budget proposal for fiscal 2027 this Friday, April 3, which requests $53.9 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Energy.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) fiscal 2027 budget request, the White House said that “revenues from licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and collections [are] estimated at $744,750,000” while the net authority will be around $133 million.
This is a reduction from the fiscal 2026 budget where NRC’s net budget authority was $148.1 million and was estimated to collect $804.5 million through revenues from licensing fees, inspection services and other services in fiscal 2026.
As for the DOE figure, it would represent a $4.8 billion or nearly 10% increase from the 2026 enacted level excluding the Working Families Tax Cut Act, according to the document.
The fiscal 2027 request seeks $1.53-billion to be appropriated to the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, which would be below the $1.8 billion it received in 2026. House and Senate Appropriators often revise the figure as it advances through Congress.
“The era of wasting taxpayer dollars on unreliable, expensive energy that is dependent on foreign supply chains is over,” the administration said. “The U.S. government will no longer subsidize intermittent energy forms.”
The budget request includes $3.5 billion to rapidly deploy firm baseload power and a $1.2 billion was also requested for artificial intelligence to support supercomputers at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
Trump’s White House also calls for a $150 million reduction in the DOE’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). It said the reductions will be made to cut funding from the Green New Deal priorities and will realign with the Trump administration’s priorities of “AI [artificial intelligence], critical materials, and fusion fuels,” according to the document.
Also in the fiscal 2026 budget, under the general provisions for DOE, $3.1 billion was allocated to support its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program and small modular reactors.
Additional budget coverage will be available in coming days in Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.