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Outlays for mandatory means-tested programs would grow over the next decade at an average annual rate of 4 percent, whereas spending for mandatory non–means-tested programs would grow at an average rate of 6 percent, CBO projects.
- Blog Post
Last Monday, CBO released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028. This week, CBO is publishing daily blog posts to share key excerpts from the report, and today’s post is about the agency’s projections of federal spending.
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CBOLT is the main analytical tool that CBO uses to make long-term projections of the economy and federal budget. Those projections help shed light on fiscal challenges that extend beyond CBO’s standard 10-year projection window.
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In CBO’s projections, the economy grows relatively quickly this year and next and then more slowly in the following several years. The federal budget deficit rises substantially, boosting federal debt to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028.
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This report explains the changes to CBO’s long-term Social Security projections since last year. Compared with those made in July 2016, CBO’s latest projections indicate a slight improvement in the financial outlook for Social Security.
- Report
This year, in lieu of publishing a separate report providing additional information on the agency’s long-term projections for Social Security, CBO is publishing the data that it would have presented in that report.
- Report
This report explains the various measures and approaches for quantifying the adequacy of retirement income, providing a framework for further analysis.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on October 4, 2017
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on October 4, 2017
- Presentation
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, at the 19th annual meeting of the Retirement Research Consortium.