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The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires CBO to produce an annual report on federal spending, revenues, and deficits or surpluses. This document provides answers to questions about how CBO prepares those baseline budget projections.
- Blog Post
CBO is engaged in many efforts aimed at fostering transparency, such as providing additional information to help people understand the federal budget process and the agency’s role in that process. Today, CBO is publishing two updated budget primers (first released in 2018) as part of those efforts:
- Report
The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires CBO to prepare estimates of the cost of legislation at certain points in the legislative process. This document provides answers to questions about how CBO prepares those cost estimates.
- Presentation
Presentation by Tamara Hayford, Chief of CBO’s Health Policy Studies Unit, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
- Report
In this report, the latest in a quarterly series, CBO highlights its recent publications and summarizes its work in progress.
- Report
The Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the Senate Committee on Appropriations convened a hearing at which Phillip L. Swagel, CBO's Director, testified. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Blog Post
CBO has again been recognized by the Partnership for Public Service as one of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. CBO placed No. 1 in the small-agency category in the latest Best Places to Work ranking, which is for 2022.
- Interactive
This workbook allows users to define and analyze alternative economic scenarios by specifying differences in the values of four economic variables relative to the values underlying CBO's February 2023 projections.
- Report
CBO's transparency efforts are intended to promote a thorough understanding of its work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of its analyses and processes.
- Report
CBO Director Phillip Swagel testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch.