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CBO is engaged in many efforts aimed at fostering transparency, such as providing additional information to help people understand the federal budget process and the agency’s role in that process. Today, CBO is publishing two updated budget primers (first released in 2018) as part of those efforts:
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The enhanced tool lets users change the defense budget to see the possible effects on military forces, or add or subtract major units to see the effects on the budget, or explore a mix of those approaches. It includes a how-to-use tutorial.
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CBO estimates that portions of the Administration’s proposal to increase funding for the IRS by $80 billion over the 2022–2031 period would increase revenues by approximately $200 billion over those 10 years.
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CBO has reduced its projections of corporate income tax receipts for the 2020–2029 period by $127 billion (or about 4 percent). That change from the agency’s August 2019 projections arose from several sources.
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CBO Director Keith Hall discusses changes to CBO’s economic forecast since January 2017 and provides an estimate of the portion of those changes that can be attributed to the enactment of the 2017 tax act.
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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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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.