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- Report
CBO is required to report its assessment of whether enacted appropriations for the current fiscal year exceed caps on discretionary spending. In CBO's estimation, they do not, and hence a sequestration will not be required for 2016.
- Cost Estimate
As signed into law on December 18, 2015
- Cost Estimate
As cleared for the President's signature on December 18, 2015
- Report
Under current law, CBO projects, Social Security’s trust funds, considered together, will be exhausted in 2029. In that case, benefits in 2030 would need to be reduced by 29 percent from the scheduled amounts.
- Cost Estimate
As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on December 16, 2015
- Report
CBO analyzes 36 policy options commonly proposed by policymakers and analysts. Most of them would improve Social Security’s long-term finances, but only a few would significantly postpone the combined trust funds’ exhaustion date.
- Cost Estimate
Letter to the Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz regarding a proposal about the use of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 2, 2015
- Report
The federal budget deficit was $200 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2016, CBO estimates. That deficit was $22 billion larger than the one recorded during the same period last year.
- Working Paper
This working paper describes the methods and calculations CBO used in its August 2015 baseline projections to estimate the effects of the Affordable Care Act on the labor market.