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CBO analyzed the effects on the budget and the economy of eight scenarios that differ from those underlying the agency’s extended baseline—six that vary economic conditions and two that vary budgetary conditions.
- Presentation
Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at the American Enterprise Institute.
- Report
CBO provides information about how its most recent budget projections would change under different assumptions about future legislated policies.
- Presentation
Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at the 2024 Inforum Outlook Conference.
- Report
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.
- Interactive
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.
- Report
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.
- Report
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.
- Report
The federal budget deficit increases significantly in relation to gross domestic product over the next 30 years, in CBO’s projections, pushing federal debt held by the public far beyond any previously recorded level.
- Blog Post
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.