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What changes in federal budget deficits would be necessary to reduce debt held by the public over the long term? CBO analyzed the primary deficit reductions necessary to meet three different debt targets in four different time frames.
- Interactive
CBO’s new interactive tool allows users to simulate the agency’s process for projecting discretionary budget authority and outlays for different types of spending over the course of 10 years.
- Report
The House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Keith Hall testified about The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record by Congressman Palmer.
- Report
The House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Deputy Director Mark Hadley testified about CBO’s baseline projections and cost estimates. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record by Chairman Womack.
- Presentation
Presentation by Robert Arnold, Chief of the Projections Unit in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, and Christina Hawley Anthony, Chief of the Projections Unit in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the NABE Foundation’s 15th Annual Economic Measurement Seminar.
- Report
In this primer, CBO discusses the methodological differences between the FCRA and fair-value approaches and how those differences affect estimates of the cost of federal credit programs.
- Report
Using FCRA procedures, CBO estimates that new loans and loan guarantees issued in 2019 would result in savings of $37.4 billion. But using fair-value procedures, CBO estimates that they would have a lifetime cost of $37.9 billion.
- Interactive
This workbook allows users to enter an alternative scenario for productivity growth, labor force growth, inflation, or interest rates and see estimates of revenues, several types of spending, and deficits under those scenarios.
- Blog Post
CBO released a report on its “rules of thumb” that shows how changes in four key economic variables might affect revenues, outlays, and deficits. An interactive workbook allows users to see the budgetary effects of their own scenarios.
- Presentation
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, at the 10th Annual Meeting of the OECD Network of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.