CBO's regular budget publications include semiannual reports on the budget and economic outlook, annual reports analyzing the President’s budget and discussing the long-term budget picture, and a biannual set of options for reducing budget deficits. CBO also prepares cost estimates and mandate statements for nearly every bill that is reported by a Congressional committee. Numerous analytic studies provide more in-depth analysis of specific budgetary issues.
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023Feb 2013 - Under current law, federal debt will stay at historically high levels relative to the economy, CBO projects. Economic growth will be slow in 2013 but pick up thereafter. Even so, the unemployment rate will be above 7.5 percent through 2014.
Macroeconomic Effects of Alternative Budgetary PathsFeb 2013 - CBO examined three budgetary paths that would increase or reduce budget deficits relative to current law. Through 2023, those paths would result in considerably different trajectories of federal debt and the nation’s output and income.
Choices for Deficit ReductionNov 2012 - Putting the federal budget on a more sustainable path is likely to require a combination of policies, many of which may stand in stark contrast to policies now in place.
Long-Term Budget OutlookJun 2012 - The explosive path of federal debt under the fiscal scenario that many budget analysts believe is more representative of fiscal policies that are now or have recently been in effect underscores the need for large policy changes to put the federal government on a sustainable course.
The Economic Impact of the President's 2013 BudgetApr 2012 - CBO analyzes the potential effects of the President's budget on the economy and, in turn, the impact of those macroeconomic effects on the federal budget.
An Analysis of the President's 2013 BudgetMar 2012 - Each year, CBO analyzes the President's budget proposals using CBO's own economic assumptions and estimating techniques rather than the Administration's.
The U.S. Federal BudgetDec 2011 - CBO published an infographic that provided an overview of the federal budget in fiscal year 2011. The agency has released three additional infographics that provide a more detailed look at federal revenues and at mandatory and discretionary spending in 2011.
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A Tour of the Federal Budget and Possible Changes in Budget Policy
presentationApril 26, 2013Statement for the Record on the Status of the Highway Trust Fund
reportApril 24, 2013CBO To Release Analysis of the President’s FY 2014 Budget and Updated Baseline Projections in May
blog postApril 22, 2013Differences Between the Traditional CPI and the Chained CPI
blog postApril 19, 2013Testimony on Using the Chained CPI to Index Social Security, Other Federal Programs, and the Tax Code for Inflation
reportApril 18, 2013CBO Testifies on Using the Chained CPI to Index Social Security, Other Federal Programs, and the Tax Code for Inflation
blog postApril 18, 2013What Would Be the Effect on the Deficit of Using the Chained CPI to Index Benefit Programs and the Tax Code?
blog postApril 18, 2013Snapshot of Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and Guardianship Assistance
blog postApril 18, 2013
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