How will CMMI’s activities affect federal spending under current law? How does CBO estimate the budgetary effects of legislation that would affect CMMI’s current or future activities?
July 2015
Would expanding Medicare coverage for telemedicine services increase or decrease federal spending? How does CBO estimate the budgetary effects of proposals related to telemedicine?
Director Keith Hall spoke to the Center for Strategic Tax Reform, highlighting the key points of CBO’s latest long-term budget projections.
CBO Director Keith Hall testifies on the long-term budget outlook before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate.
The federal government ran a budget deficit of $314 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2015, CBO estimates.
The Congress adopted a concurrent resolution on the FY16 budget that requires CBO, to the greatest extent practicable, to include macroeconomic effects in its 10-year cost estimates of major legislation approved by Congressional committees.