On May 30, the Trump Administration released its Budget Appendix for FY2026, offering more details on its request compared to the Skinny budget released on May 2, but still lacking all program-level details, as well as details on the portion of funds it is requesting through budget reconciliation.

With this budget appendix, the public can now see some of what the administration is asking for at the service and account levels, at least if you’re willing to read the fine print (or let us read it for you). But, without the full budget, information on the Pentagon budget request at the program level is completely unavailable. So, for now, we’re just offering some top-line numbers on the Pentagon budget request for broad accounts and military services. Click here to download our full breakdown in Excel format.

These numbers require some caveats. First, the total for FY2025 is roughly $11 billion short of the FY2025 base Pentagon request of $849.77 billion. This roughly matches the amount for Tricare accrual contributions listed in the FY2025 budget appendix. As the FY2026 budget appendix does not have funding tables for the Pentagon like it did last year, we pulled these FY2025 numbers from the suggested bill text in the FY2025 appendix, which did not include the Tricare accrual amounts.

Second, this breakdown only includes spending listed under the Pentagon’s portion of the budget appendix. It does not include funding for the Coast Guard, which is funded through the Department of Homeland Security, nor does it include nuclear weapons spending and other defense-related spending at the Department of Energy. It also excludes mandatory spending.

Third, and most significant, the budget appendix does not include details on how the administration plans to spend money included for the Pentagon in the budget reconciliation bill, should it become law. Therefore, these numbers do not fully articulate the administration’s actual priorities.

Adding the Pentagon request in the base budget request to Pentagon spending in the House-passed reconciliation bill could theoretically offer a clearer picture of the full Pentagon budget request. However, the funding included in the reconciliation package is not categorized in the same way as the funding in the budget request, so combining the two is virtually impossible. For instance, Sec. 20001 of the House-passed reconciliation bill is devoted to improving quality of life for military personnel, but under this heading, there are single line-items that cover multiple military services, and likely multiple accounts, such as “$1,000,000,000 for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force sustainment, restoration, and modernizations of military unaccompanied housing…”

So, for now, taxpayers really are in the dark about even the account- and service-level spending in the president’s budget request, let alone the program-level funding where much of the actual strategic prioritization takes place. More importantly, the House and Senate are still in the dark as well, even as they pursue an aggressive schedule for marking up the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bills.

Late, incomplete, and utterly disorganized. If this budget request had a Yelp page, we’d give it one star.