CBO/JCT

CBO has just released its August Budget and Economic Outlook. You can find it here. Under current law, assuming policymakers make no changes to what's...

We just released our in-depth analysis of CBO's Budget and Economic Outlook, published earlier today. In the paper we explain how CBO's current law...

The caps on discretionary spending were, of course, the concrete centerpiece of last week's budget deal. Considering the importance of the caps, CBO...

CBO's latest Social Security projections bring no surprises to anyone familiar with the state of the program's finances. CBO projects the program to...

Budget projections are a rather fickle thing, especially in the midst of great uncertainty about the strength of the economic recovery. By accident...

Update: CBO has just released its own comparison table of the Reid and Boehner plans, where it now breaks out the war and non-war interest savings...

Many of the fiscal plans produced over the last several months -- including the Gang of Six plan and the President’s budget -- propose selling excess...

Although this idea isn't brand new, CBO director Doug Elmendorf has a blog post that concisely illustrates the trade-offs that must be made in order...

CBO recently released its analysis of a hypothetical deficit reduction plan's effect on the economy. They use a $2.4 trillion deficit reduction plan...

In a recent report, CBO estimated the base defense budget from 2012 out through 2030 using the Defense Department's Future Years Defense Program (FYDP...

As if we didn't have enough on CBO's Long Term Outlook last week, we have more long-term budget projections, this time in the form of CRFB's Realistic...

In their recent Long Term Outlook, CBO shows the nation to be on an unsustainable fiscal path if we continue our current policies. Under its...