Workbook for How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2024 to 2034

This workbook allows users to define and analyze alternative economic scenarios by specifying differences in the values of four economic variables relative to the values underlying CBO's February 2024 projections.

The Federal Budget in Fiscal Year 2023: An Infographic

The federal deficit in 2023 was $1.7 trillion, equal to 6.3 percent of gross domestic product.

CBO’s Waterfall Model for Projecting Discretionary Spending, February 2024

CBO's interactive tool allows users to simulate the agency's process for projecting discretionary budget authority and outlays for different types of spending over the course of 10 years.

How Changes in Revenues and Outlays Would Affect Debt-Service Costs, Deficits, and Debt

This interactive workbook allows users to see how revenues and outlays that differed from those in CBO’s February 2024 baseline budget projections would increase or decrease net interest costs and thus affect deficits and debt.

How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income

This interactive tool, updated in January 30, 2024, allows users to explore how various policies to increase the federal minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.

CBO’s Interactive Force Structure Tool

This tool allows the user to see the effects on the Department of Defense’s total operation and support costs and on the size of the military of adding or subtracting tanks, ships, aircraft, and other units.

Workbook for How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2023 to 2033

This workbook allows users to define and analyze alternative economic scenarios by specifying differences in the values of four economic variables relative to the values underlying CBO's February 2023 projections.

CBO’s Waterfall Model for Projecting Discretionary Spending, March 2023

CBO's interactive tool allows users to simulate the agency's process for projecting discretionary budget authority and outlays for different types of spending over the course of 10 years.

How Changes in Revenues and Outlays Would Affect Debt Service, Deficits, and Debt

This interactive workbook allows users to see how revenues and outlays that differed from those in CBO’s February 2023 baseline budget projections would increase or decrease net interest costs and thus affect deficits and debt.

CBO's Waterfall Model for Projecting Discretionary Spending, August 2022

CBO's interactive tool allows users to simulate the agency's process for projecting discretionary budget authority and outlays for different types of spending over the course of 10 years.