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CBO focused on households’ consumption of a bundle of typical goods and services from 2019 to compare purchasing power in 2019 with that in 2023. On average, purchasing power increased, but the effects of inflation varied by income group.
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Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at the American Enterprise Institute.
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CBO provides information about how its most recent budget projections would change under different assumptions about future legislated policies.
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Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at the 2024 Inforum Outlook Conference.
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To show how variations in economic conditions might affect its budget projections, CBO analyzed how revenues, outlays, and deficits might change if the values of key economic variables differed from those in the agency’s forecast.
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Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at a conference organized by the Economic Policy Innovation Center and the Paragon Health Institute.
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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.
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CBO estimates that the effects on mandatory spending and revenues of laws enacted in 2023 will reduce the deficit by $10 billion from 2023 to 2033—the net result of a $12 billion decrease in outlays and a $2 billion decrease in revenues.
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The Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened a hearing at which Chapin White, CBO’s Director of Health Analysis, testified. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
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The House Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Phillip L. Swagel, CBO's Director, testified. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.