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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's Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses his most recent and upcoming presentations about the agency's long-term budget projections, demographic projections, and the overall fiscal outlook.
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CBO will publish "The Long-Term Budget Outlook: 2024 to 2054" on March 20 at 2 p.m. The report will provide projections of federal spending, revenues, deficits, and debt for the next 30 years.
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View CBO’s budget infographics to see how much the federal government spent and took in during fiscal year 2023, as well as broader trends in the budget over the past few decades.
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Revenues received by the federal government in 2023 totaled $4.4 trillion, of which half was receipts from individual income taxes.
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Discretionary outlays by the federal government totaled $1.7 trillion in 2023. Outlays for nondefense programs accounted for more than half of that total.
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Mandatory outlays by the federal government totaled $3.8 trillion in 2023; more than half was for Social Security and Medicare. The largest increases over the past 20 years have been for the major health care programs.
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The federal deficit in 2023 was $1.7 trillion, equal to 6.3 percent of gross domestic product.
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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.
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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.