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- Cost Estimate
As passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on November 15, 2017
- Report
When the Congress considers legislation that would authorize a nonfederal entity to carry out certain duties, CBO must decide whether to treat the associated cash flows as federal transactions when estimating the bill’s budgetary effects.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on May 17, 2017
- Presentation
Presentation by Megan Carroll, an analyst for CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Department of Commerce Resource Management Conference.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 15, 2017
- Report
The Senate Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Keith Hall testified about CBO’s report The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Blog Post
In fiscal year 2012, the federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. If lawmakers maintained current policies by preventing most of the tax increases and spending cuts that are scheduled to occur in January, deficits would total almost $10 trillion over the next decade. Federal debt held by the public would increase from nearly 73 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of 2012 to 90 percent of GDP 10 years from now.
- Report
Are fiscal rules a useful tool for achieving budgetary goals? View the appendix of this report to learn more.
- Blog Post
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:
- Report
CBO provides an illustrative analysis of the federal government’s costs for credit programs following two approaches.