Transparency at CBO: Future Plans and a Review of 2022
Report
CBO's transparency efforts are intended to promote a thorough understanding of its work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of its analyses and processes.
Transparency is a top priority for the Congressional Budget Office, and the agency continues to bolster its efforts to be transparent. Those efforts are intended to promote a thorough understanding of its work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of its analyses and processes. This report fulfills CBO’s requirement to report on its plans for such efforts.
In 2023, the agency will undertake many activities aimed at fostering transparency, such as the following:
Providing additional information to help people understand the federal budget process and CBO’s role in that process; and
Explaining the methods it uses for its analyses in several topic areas, including national security, climate change, and economic projections.
Those efforts will build on CBO’s activities in 2022, which included testifying before Congressional committees and answering Members’ questions, releasing data, evaluating the accuracy of the agency’s estimates, comparing current estimates with previous ones, estimating the effects of policy alternatives, characterizing the uncertainty surrounding estimates, creating data visualizations, and conducting outreach.
