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As defined by the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, mandates generally require a nonfederal entity to take an action or comply with a prohibition. This primer describes the principles that CBO follows to identify mandates in legislation.
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CBO is required to regularly prepare a baseline consisting of projections of federal revenues, spending, deficits or surpluses, and debt under current law. This document describes the laws that govern how CBO prepares those projections.
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CBO released updated projections of health insurance coverage for people under age 65 in the journal Health Affairs.
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As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 29, 2023
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CBO’s updated projections show a federal budget deficit of $1.5 trillion for 2023. That estimate is subject to considerable uncertainty, though, in part because of a recent shortfall in tax revenues.
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Presentation by Julie Topoleski, Director of CBO’s Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the 15th Annual Meeting of the OECD’s Working Party of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
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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.