CBO/JCT

In its March baseline, CBO made a number of changes in its projections for health care spending. Given the significance of health spending to the...

Although CBO's analysis of the President's budget is the newsmaker in March in the budget world, CBO also updates its current law baseline, which...

Last year, when the President's budget used overly optimistic economic assumptions and various magic asterisks, we re-estimated their budget using...

We noted earlier this week that CBO's current law economic assumptions in the near-term do not look very stellar, especially in 2013 when the economy...

Yesterday, CRFB released its analysis of the latest budget projections from CBO, discussing debt, deficits, spending, and revenues. We also updated...

CBO released its new budget and economic outlook, showing slightly higher ten-year deficit and debt projections from 2012-2021 than the last ten-year...

CBO has a new report out, comparing federal and private-sector compensation for employees. The report shows that, on average, federal employees are...

CBO has gotten into the infographic game this year with some good results. Two days ago they released an infographic containing a basic breakdown of...

In a letter to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf estimates the cyclical...

Back in February, we dinged the President's budget for relying on overly optimistic economic assumptions in 2012 and beyond. CBO's Analysis of the...