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CBO has estimated what the economic and budgetary effects would be if the discretionary funding caps enacted in June 2023 had been those required under H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023.
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In response to a request from Chairman Arrington, CBO provides information about the agency’s ongoing work in macroeconomic analysis of legislation, health care modeling, and support for the legislative process.
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Presentation by Mark Hadley, CBO's Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, for an annual seminar of the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation.
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Rescissions are provisions of law that cancel budget authority previously provided to federal agencies before it would otherwise expire. This document provides answers to key questions about how CBO estimates savings from rescissions.
- Blog Post
CBO is engaged in many efforts to foster transparency, such as providing information to help people understand the federal budget process and the agency’s role in it. This week, CBO released three more primers as part of those efforts.
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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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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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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.
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CBO reports annually on programs whose authorizations of appropriations have already expired or will expire.
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CBO describes features of the Medicare and Medicaid improvement funds and how the funds are accounted for in CBO’s baseline and cost estimates.