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To enhance its work for the Congress, CBO is looking for new research on how borrowers would respond to changes in repayment plans for student loans, and how sponsors of pension plans would respond to changes in government pension insurance.
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CBO discusses its preliminary projections of key economic variables and its preliminary assessments of federal budget deficits and debt through 2021. The amounts include the effects of legislation enacted in response to the pandemic.
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For this report to be complete and as useful to the Congress as possible, the House and Senate Budget Committees have asked CBO to delay publishing it until it can fully account for the funding provided in all 12 annual appropriation bills.
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For this report to be complete and as useful to the Congress as possible, the House and Senate Budget Committees have asked CBO to delay publishing it until it can fully reflect the funding provided in all 12 annual appropriation bills.
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How is FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance fund structured and can it run out of funds?
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Collectively, the single-family mortgage guarantees made by FHA between 1992 and 2012 have had a net federal budgetary cost of about $15 billion, according to the most recent estimates by FHA.
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What role should the government play in the secondary market for residential mortgages, and what should become of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? CBO has analyzed some of the key choices to be made regarding the future structure of that market.
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Following a recent hearing, a Member of Congress asked in a question for the record: “How do today’s discretionary funding levels compare with pre-recession funding levels?” Today's blog post answers that question.
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Today CBO released the latest in a series of statutory reports on transactions undertaken as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)—the program established in October 2008, during the financial crisis, to enable the Department of the Treasury to promote stability in financial markets through the purchase and guarantee of "troubled assets."
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The federal government provides credit assistance to individuals and businesses in the form of direct loans and through guarantees of loans made by private financial institutions. In a report requested by the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, CBO provides an illustrative analysis of the federal government’s costs for those credit programs following two approaches: