Budget enforcement procedures, biennial budgeting, credit reform, capital budgeting, line-item veto, and fair-value accounting: Welcome to CBO's Inside Baseball category. This topic brings together the agency's work on budget concepts, the budget process, and possible budget reforms.
Budget Concepts and Process
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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.
Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2013Jun 2012 - CBO provides an illustrative analysis of the federal government’s costs for credit programs following two approaches.
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.
latest work
Information about the Congressional Budget Office’s budgetary treatment of major medical facility leases of the Department of Veterans Affairs
cost estimateMarch 22, 2013CBO’s Role in Budget Resolutions
blog postMarch 11, 2013Preliminary Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of Using the Chained CPI for Mandatory Programs and the Tax Code Starting in 2014
cost estimateMarch 1, 2013Choices for Deficit Reduction
reportNovember 8, 2012The Challenge of Deficit Reduction
blog postNovember 8, 2012Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2013
reportJune 28, 2012CBO Releases Report on Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2013
blog postJune 28, 2012List of CBO publications that analyze the budgetary impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25)
reportApril 23, 2012
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