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- Cost Estimate
As introduced in the Senate on December 17, 2013
- Report
In 2012, the federal government spent $531 billion on investment—for physical capital; research and development; and education and training—which represented 15 percent of federal spending and 3 percent of GDP.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 26, 2013
- Report
Spending on the Social Security program will exceed its dedicated tax revenues, on average, by about 12 percent over the next decade, CBO projects. The gap will grow larger in the 2020s and will exceed 30 percent of revenues by 2030.
- Blog Post
CBO examined 28 options that encompass a broad range of discretionary programs. About a third of the options would affect defense programs; the rest are for nondefense programs.
- Blog Post
The 23 options related to mandatory spending would generally decrease the amount paid to beneficiaries, redefine the population that is entitled to benefits of various programs, or reduce payments to state and local governments.
- Blog Post
Most of the 16 options that CBO examined would either decrease federal spending on health programs or increase revenues (or equivalently, reduce tax expenditures) as a result of changes in tax provisions related to health care.
- Report
This document is a reprint of Chapter 5 of CBO's publication Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023 (November 2013).
- Report
Extending emergency unemployment benefits would raise economic output and employment in 2014 relative to what would occur under current law, CBO estimates.
- Cost Estimate
As introduced on November 20, 2013