May 2025

CBO announces the current members of its Panel of Economic Advisers.

CBO announces the members of its Panel of Health Advisers for the coming year.

CBO analyzed the effects on the budget and the economy of eight scenarios that differ from those underlying the agency’s extended baseline—six that vary economic conditions and two that vary budgetary conditions.

This spreadsheet provides the data that underlie CBO’s interactive force structure tool.

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.1 trillion in the first seven months of fiscal year 2025, CBO estimates. That amount is $196 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year.

CBO is looking for new research on how nutritional standards in SNAP would affect recipients’ food choices, health outcomes, and health care spending.