CBO Blog

CBO estimates how the surge in immigration that began in 2021 affected state and local budgets in 2023. State and local tax revenues grew, but the costs of providing services grew more.

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

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

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.

CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch.

Throughout the reconciliation process, CBO, in collaboration with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, assists the Congress by providing nonpartisan analysis and cost estimates for legislative proposals.

CBO estimates that plans for U.S. nuclear forces, as described in the fiscal year 2025 budget and supporting documents, would cost $946 billion over the 2025–2034 period, $190 billion more than CBO's 2023 estimate for the 2023–2032 period.