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CBO Releases New Budget Infographics
April 18, 2014Check out CBO’s budget infographics to see how much the federal government spent and took in during fiscal year 2013 and other information about the government’s budget and debt.read more -
CBO Releases "Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program—April 2014"
April 17, 2014CBO estimates that, all told, the TARP’s transactions will cost the federal government $27 billion. That estimate accounts for the realized costs of completed transactions and the estimated costs of outstanding and anticipated transactions.read more -
CBO Releases "An Analysis of the President's 2015 Budget"
April 17, 2014Enacting the President’s proposals would, CBO and JCT estimate, result in deficits totaling $6.6 trillion between 2015 and 2024, $1.0 trillion less than the cumulative deficit in CBO’s current-law baseline.read more -
CBO Releases "Updated Estimates of the Effects of the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act, April 2014"
April 14, 2014CBO and JCT have lowered their estimates of the net federal cost of the ACA’s insurance coverage provisions—to $1.4 trillion over the next decade, about $100 billion less than estimated in February.read more -
CBO Releases "Updated Budget Projections: 2014 to 2024"
April 14, 2014The deficit will decrease to $492 billion in 2014, CBO projects. But under current law, deficits will begin rising again in 2016—and by 2024, debt will reach 78 percent of GDP, twice the average of the past 40 years.read more -
CBO To Release Updated Baseline Projections and Analysis of the President’s FY 2015 Budget Next Week
April 8, 2014CBO plans to release its updated 10-year baseline projections of federal spending, revenues, and budget deficits on Monday, April 14.read more -
CBO Releases "Monthly Budget Review for March 2014"
April 7, 2014The federal government ran a budget deficit of $413 billion for the first six months of fiscal year 2014, CBO estimates—$187 billion less than the shortfall recorded in the same span last year.read more -
CBO's Role in Budget Resolutions
April 1, 2014Past experience indicates that CBO will receive lots of questions about the House's proposed budget resolution and CBO's "estimates" of its impact. This post explains a bit about such resolutions.read more -
CBO Releases "Budgetary and Economic Outcomes Under Paths for Federal Revenues and Noninterest Spending Specified by Chairman Ryan, April 2014"
April 1, 2014Under budgetary paths, but not particular policies, specified by Chairman Ryan, total deficits and debt would be smaller than under CBO’s extended baseline. Economic output would be lower in the next few years but higher thereafter.read more -
CBO Releases "A Review of CBO's Activities in 2013 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act"
March 27, 2014Of the 437 bills CBO reviewed in 2013, 39 contained intergovernmental mandates and 53 contained private-sector mandates. Of the 72 public laws enacted in 2013, 3 contain intergovernmental mandates and 8 contain private-sector mandates.read more
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