Budget
- Report
Monthly Budget Review: Summary for Fiscal Year 2018
In fiscal year 2018, the budget deficit totaled $779 billion—$113 billion more than the shortfall recorded in 2017. Measured as a share of GDP, the deficit increased to 3.8 percent in 2018, up from 3.5 percent in 2017 and 3.2 percent in 2016.
- Report
Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations and Its Impact on Defense Spending
CBO analyzes how the Defense Department’s (DoD’s) funding for military conflicts has changed over time and how the separate budgetary treatment of that funding affects perceptions of DoD’s spending and the anticipated costs of DoD’s plans.
- Cost Estimate
S. 3137, Reforming Government Act of 2018
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on September 26, 2018
- Cost Estimate
S. 3484, GREAT Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on September 26, 2018
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 6777, Settlement Agreement Information Database Act of 2018
As reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 27, 2018
- Report
Federal Support for Financing State and Local Transportation and Water Infrastructure
Sixty percent of state and local investment in transportation and water infrastructure is financed using tools that impose costs on the federal government: tax-exempt bonds, tax credit bonds, state banks, and direct federal credit programs.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 4758, FOMC Policy Responsibility Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on September 13, 2018
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 4753, Federal Reserve Supervision Testimony Clarification Act
As passed by the House of Representatives on September 26, 2018
- Presentation
An Overview of The 2018 Budget and Economic Outlook
Presentation by John McClelland, CBO’s Assistant Director for Tax Analysis, at the International Tax Policy Forum.
- Report
Monthly Budget Review for September 2018
The federal budget deficit was $782 billion in fiscal year 2018, CBO estimates, $116 billion more than the shortfall recorded in fiscal year 2017.