February 2019

  • Long-Term Implications of the 2019 Future Years Defense Program

    CBO estimates that if the Department of Defense implemented the plans described in its 2019 Future Years Defense Program, its base-budget costs (in 2019 dollars) would climb from the $617 billion requested for 2019 to $735 billion in 2033.

  • Why CBO Will Not Publish the Monthly Budget Review for January 2019

    CBO will not publish the Monthly Budget Review for January 2019 because some data that the agency would have used to produce the report were unavailable as a result of the federal government’s partial shutdown from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019.