Each year, CBO estimates the budgetary impact of the proposals in the President's budget using the agency's own economic assumptions and estimating techniques—thus enabling the Congress to compare the Administration's spending and revenue proposals to CBO's projections of spending and revenues under current law, and to other proposals, using a consistent set of economic and technical assumptions. CBO also estimates the economic impact of the proposals in the President’s budget and the "feedback effect" that those changes in the economy would have on the budget.
Analysis of the President's Budget
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An Analysis of the President’s 2014 BudgetMay 2013 - Enactment of the President’s proposals would, CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate, result in deficits totaling $5.2 trillion between 2014 and 2023, $1.1 trillion less than the cumulative deficit in CBO’s baseline.
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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Estimated Effects on Direct Spending and Revenues for Health Care Programs of Proposals in the President's 2014 Budget
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013Comparing Budget Plans
blog postMay 17, 2013Proposal in the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2014 to Use the Chained CPI
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013CBO's Reestimate of the President's 2014 Mandatory Proposals for Postsecondary Education
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013Projections of Highway Trust Fund Accounts Under CBO's Reestimate of the President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: CBO's May 2013 Baseline and the President's FY 2014 Budget
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013Social Security Proposals in the President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget as Reestimated by CBO
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013Unemployment Compensation and Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers
data or technical informationMay 17, 2013
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