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In 2026, CBO will promote transparency by publishing new modeling tools, source code, and technical documentation and by explaining the methods it uses for its analyses in several topic areas.
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In this report, the latest in a quarterly series, CBO highlights its recent publications and summarizes its work in progress.
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The federal budget deficit totaled $1.2 trillion in the first half of fiscal year 2026, CBO estimates. That amount is $139 billion less than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year.
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Molly Dahl, CBO's Chief of Long-Term Analysis, testifies before the Senate Budget Committee.
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CBO estimates that the effects on direct spending and revenues of laws enacted in the first session of the 119th Congress will reduce outlays and decrease revenues from 2025 to 2034, which will increase the deficit by $3.5 trillion.
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CBO Director Phillip Swagel testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch.
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CBO Director Phillip Swagel testifies about the agency's most recent analysis of the outlook for the budget and the economy before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth.
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The federal budget deficit totaled $1.0 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2026, CBO estimates. That amount is $142 billion less than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year.
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In lieu of publishing a report providing CBO's latest long-term budget outlook, the agency is publishing the data that it would have presented in that report.
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In CBO's projections, the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2026 is $1.9 trillion, and federal debt rises to 120 percent of GDP in 2036. Economic growth strengthens in 2026 and moderates in later years.
