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Cost Estimate
Senate Amendment 2910 to H.R. 5895, Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019
June 19, 2018As introduced on June 18, 2018
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Cost Estimate
H.R. 5415, GAO-IG Act
June 15, 2018As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 23, 2018
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Cost Estimate
H.R. 5895, Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019
June 15, 2018As passed by the House of Representatives on June 8, 2018
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Blog Post
CBO to Release Long-Term Budget Outlook on June 26
June 14, 2018CBO will release The 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 26. The long-term projections—which span 30 years—are consistent with CBO’s latest 10-year budget and economic projections.
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Blog Post
CBO Releases New Report on Accuracy of Outlay Projections
June 12, 2018The report focuses on the accuracy of projections for fiscal year 2017—made about a year and half before the end of that fiscal year—and also makes comparisons with the accuracy of CBO’s corresponding projections for the 1993–2016 period.
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Report
The Accuracy of CBO’s Outlay Estimates for Fiscal Year 2017
June 12, 2018CBO’s March 2016 projections of federal outlays for fiscal year 2017 were $65 billion—or 1.6 percent—more than the actual amount reported by OMB. By comparison, the mean absolute error for projections made for 1993 to 2016 is 2.3 percent.
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Report
The Budgetary Treatment of Cost-Sharing Reductions
June 8, 2018In a letter to Congressman Mark Meadows, CBO provides information about cost-sharing reductions and their budgetary treatment.
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Cost Estimate
H.R. 3, Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act
June 7, 2018As modified by H.Res. 923
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Report
Monthly Budget Review for May 2018
June 7, 2018The federal budget deficit was $530 billion for the first eight months of fiscal year 2018, CBO estimates, $97 billion more than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year.
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Data and Technical Information
Proposals Affecting Medicare—CBO’s Estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year 2019 Budget
June 5, 2018On June 5, 2018, CBO reposted this table. The revised version distinguishes provisions for which CBO estimated that there would be no effect on direct spending from provisions for which there was not enough information to estimate a budgetary effect.