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Blog Post
September 13, 2016
On August 23, CBO released its most recent budget and economic projections. Because the Congress was out of session at that time, we thought we’d review those budget projections today.
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Blog Post
September 8, 2016
CBO compares its economic forecast, as presented in An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026, with historical experience and discusses why economic growth in coming years is projected to diverge from historical trends.
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Blog Post
September 8, 2016
CBO’s analysis found that hospitals’ profit margins could decline by 2025. Whether hospitals could respond to those financial pressures in ways that maintain their profitability is unclear, highlighting the need for more research.
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Blog Post
September 7, 2016
CBO discusses several uncertainties in the outlook for the U.S. economy, as described in An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026.
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Blog Post
August 9, 2016
The report will be available on CBO’s website at 2:00 p.m.
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Blog Post
August 2, 2016
CBO published its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook in July, describing the agency’s projections of federal spending and revenues over the next 30 years. This blog post focuses on the projected growth of net interest costs.
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Blog Post
August 1, 2016
CBO published its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook in July, describing the agency’s projections of federal spending and revenues over the next 30 years. This blog post focuses on the spending of Social Security and major health care programs.
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Blog Post
June 27, 2016
These enhancements are aimed at making our work more accessible and ensuring that visitors to our website will access the same content and have a similar experience regardless of the device they use.
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Blog Post
June 23, 2016
The 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook will be available on CBO’s website at 10:00 a.m. on the day of release.
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Blog Post
May 25, 2016
I am delighted to announce that CBO’s next Deputy Director will be Mark Hadley, currently our General Counsel. Mark will assume his new responsibilities on June 6.
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Blog Post
May 24, 2016
CBO learns from many outside experts. Part of that learning comes through our panels of advisers—a Panel of Economic Advisers and a Panel of Health Advisers—which consist of widely recognized authorities on a range of issues.
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Blog Post
May 23, 2016
For the next six weeks, CBO will continue to collect your feedback via the button on the left side of our web pages. We want to know what you like about our site. What’s useful? What’s missing? What can we improve?
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Blog Post
May 10, 2016
The aim of the new search tool is to enhance users’ experience by making information on mandates easier to access, searchable, and more timely. New data will be added periodically throughout the year.
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Blog Post
April 5, 2016
CBO is seeking feedback about its website to help improve users’ experience. We want to know what you like about our site. What’s useful? What’s missing? What can we improve?
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Blog Post
March 24, 2016
We are excited to announce the launch of a new page on our website featuring CBO’s baseline projections for selected programs. The goal of the new page is to provide a one-stop shop for CBO’s baseline tables for selected programs.
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Blog Post
March 15, 2016
The Chairman of the House Budget Committee has announced that the committee will be considering a proposed budget resolution soon. What are budget resolutions, and what is CBO’s role in this process?
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Blog Post
February 10, 2016
After questions were raised by outside analysts, we identified some errors in one part of our report, CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information, which was released on December 16, 2015.
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Blog Post
February 4, 2016
In an opening statement to the House Budget Committee, CBO Director Keith Hall discussed The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026, which was released in January.
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Blog Post
February 3, 2016
In an opening statement to the Senate Budget Committee, CBO Director Keith Hall discussed appropriations with expired authorizations and CBO’s latest annual report on the subject.
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Blog Post
February 1, 2016
CBO is excited to announce the launch of a new Budget and Economic Data page. The page features links to budget and economic projections released in the Budget and Economic Outlook and Updates and in the associated supplemental material.
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Blog Post
January 25, 2016
CBO will release its annual Budget and Economic Outlook report at 2 p.m. today on the agency’s website as scheduled.
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Blog Post
January 19, 2016
CBO will publish a summary of its annual Budget and Economic Outlook report at 11 a.m. today on the agency’s website. The complete report will be released next week on Monday, January 25, at 2 p.m.
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Blog Post
January 8, 2016
CBO will publish a summary of its annual Budget and Economic Outlook report at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 19. The brief summary will include updated budget and economic projections spanning the period from 2016 to 2026.
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Blog Post
January 6, 2016
View CBO’s budget infographics to see how much the federal government spent and took in during fiscal year 2015, as well as broader trends in the budget over the past few decades.
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Blog Post
December 7, 2015
To enhance the transparency of CBO’s work, the agency regularly provides information about the methods and calculations underlying its estimates.
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Blog Post
November 5, 2015
CBO Director Keith Hall spoke to the Board of Trustees for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation about CBO’s latest long-term projections.
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Blog Post
November 3, 2015
CBO has assessed how much the supply of various types of renewable fuels would have to increase over the next several years to comply with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and how food and fuel prices would vary in three scenarios.
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Blog Post
October 26, 2015
CBO concludes that existing evidence does not indicate that certain policies to treat obesity would significantly reduce federal spending. Additional well-designed studies on the effects of such policies would be useful for CBO’s analysis.
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Blog Post
October 14, 2015
If the debt limit remains unchanged, CBO projects, the Treasury’s cash balance will be entirely depleted sometime in the first half of November, at which time the government would be unable to fully pay its obligations.
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Blog Post
August 25, 2015
Remarks by Keith Hall, CBO Director