CBO would benefit from additional data and research that would broaden and deepen the agency's basis of assessment for modeling the effects of permitting-related legislative proposals and administrative actions.
Dynamic Analysis
PresentationThis slide deck describes the main mechanisms in CBO's dynamic analysis of H.R. 1, explains the changes to SNAP, and explains the macroeconomic effects and budgetary feedback of those changes.
Blog PostBuilding on its earlier analyses and those provided by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, CBO published a dynamic estimate of the budgetary effects of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
ReportCBO and staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation respond to questions about how they develop estimates of the budgetary and economic effects of legislation.
ReportCBO estimates how expanding certain children’s eligibility for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next 10 years would affect the U.S. economy and the federal budget through the end of the century.
Blog PostSome federal policies involve short-term expenditures that result in economic and budgetary effects far in the future. CBO has been building analytic capacity to consider a dynamic framework for policies that would have long-term effects.
ReportThe 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.
ReportCBO examined two illustrative scenarios that would boost federal funding for a mix of types of physical infrastructure by $500 billion over 10 years. The two scenarios differ in how the additional spending would be financed.
ReportCBO has developed “rules of thumb” that show how changes in four key economic variables might affect revenues, outlays, and deficits. An interactive workbook allows users to see the budgetary effects of their own alternative scenarios.
Blog PostThe Congress adopted a concurrent resolution on the FY16 budget that requires CBO, to the greatest extent practicable, to include macroeconomic effects in its 10-year cost estimates of major legislation approved by Congressional committees.