Budget Options
- Presentation
The Budget Outlook and Options for Reducing the Deficit
Presentation by Julie Topoleski, Director of CBO’s Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, and Molly Saunders-Scott, analyst in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, at the National Tax Association’s 53rd Annual Spring Symposium.
- Presentation
The Budget, the Economy, and the Budgetary Effects of Legislative Changes
A briefing by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, for the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Blog Post
Options for Reducing the Deficit
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, uses the agency’s latest report on budget options to illustrate ways to reduce the deficit.
- Working Paper
Current Work on the Distributional Analysis of Household Income Resulting From Policy Changes: Working Paper 2022-09
This paper introduces a standardized framework to analyze how policy changes alter the distribution of household income to complement CBO’s analyses of policy changes’ budgetary and economic effects.
- Presentation
Health Care Options for Reducing the Deficit
Presentation by Carrie Colla, Director of CBO's Health Analysis Division, and Chapin White, Deputy Director of CBO's Health Analysis Division, to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
- Blog Post
Director's Statement on CBO's Latest Volumes of Budget Options
CBO’s Director describes the two volumes of budget options that the agency released today. They describe a variety of policies that would reduce federal budget deficits by increasing revenues or decreasing spending over the next 10 years.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume I: Larger Reductions
CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume II: Smaller Reductions
CBO issues a volume that contains short descriptions of 59 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by less than $300 billion over the next 10 years.
- Blog Post
CBO to Release Budget Options in Two Volumes on December 7
On Wednesday, December 7, CBO will release Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2023 to 2032, the latest edition of a report that the agency publishes periodically.
- Blog Post
CBO Releases an Improved Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Military’s Forces and Resources
The enhanced tool lets users change the defense budget to see the possible effects on military forces, or add or subtract major units to see the effects on the budget, or explore a mix of those approaches. It includes a how-to-use tutorial.