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In a response to Congressman Palmer, CBO summarizes its recent analysis of the costs of making permanent some of the policies in the Build Back Better Act.
- Report
CBO responds to a question from Senator Schumer about its analysis of the costs of making permanent some of the provisions of the Build Back Better Act.
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CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation project the budgetary effects, including the effects on interest costs, of a modified version of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, that would make various policies permanent rather than temporary.
- Working Paper
This paper describes the methods and data that CBO uses to estimate the cost of market risk for three categories of federal credit programs: housing and real estate loans, student loans and other consumer loans, and commercial loans.
- Cost Estimate
As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021 (Rules Committee Print 117-18), as Amended by Yarmuth Amendment 112
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CBO estimates the costs of federal credit programs in two ways—following procedures prescribed by the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) and using a fair-value approach, which measures the market value of the government’s obligations.
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CBO describes VA’s mortgage guarantee program, provides estimates of the budgetary costs of the program, and compares those costs with expenditures for other federal guarantees.
- Working Paper
This paper explores the practical questions raised by fair-value budgeting: Which government activities would benefit from it? How might it be used? How can agencies estimate fair value without observing market prices for government risks?
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on April 21, 2021
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Congress created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in 2008 to stabilize financial markets. CBO estimates that the TARP’s net cost will be $31 billion—about what it reported in March 2020 and $1 billion lower than OMB’s latest estimate.