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- 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.
- Report
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security convened a hearing at which CBO’s Director testified on financial shortfalls projected for Social Security. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Report
CBO periodically issues a volume of options—this year’s installment presents 115—that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues over the next decade. The report is available both as a PDF and in a searchable format.
- Cost Estimate
House Rules Committee Print 114-70 for H.R. 2028
- Report
The federal budget deficit was $179 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2017, CBO estimates, $22 billion less than the one recorded during the same period last year.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on May 25, 2016
- Cost Estimate
As passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on September 22, 2016
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on November 16, 2016
- Working Paper
This paper examines various factors that affect estimates made by CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the budgetary savings from tax compliance proposals.
- Blog Post
CBO will release Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026, the latest edition in the agency’s periodic volume of budget options, on Thursday, December 8 at 2:00 p.m.