Chairman Arrington, Ranking Member Boyle, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about the work of the Congressional Budget Office. As you know, CBO spent much time and effort supporting Congress (both the majority and minority) as it developed and considered the 2025 reconciliation act (Public Law 119-21). Today, I am pleased to provide details about that work—including the agency's technical assistance, which, for example, kept committee markups on track; our cost estimates and dynamic analysis for legislation, which provided budgetary and economic information ahead of votes; and our prompt responses to the many separate requests for analysis that came from Members of Congress.
All of that work epitomizes CBO's fulfillment of its mission to provide objective, nonpartisan information in support of the Congressional budget process. And in the case of the reconciliation process, the timeliness of the agency's analysis was of paramount importance. In the course of our work, we needed to strike a balance between such timeliness and making our analysis as transparent as possible, and I am happy to say more about that as well.
