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Mandatory outlays by the federal government totaled $3.8 trillion in 2023; more than half was for Social Security and Medicare. The largest increases over the past 20 years have been for the major health care programs.
- Graphic
Discretionary outlays by the federal government totaled $1.7 trillion in 2023. Outlays for nondefense programs accounted for more than half of that total.
- Blog Post
View CBO’s budget infographics to see how much the federal government spent and took in during fiscal year 2023, as well as broader trends in the budget over the past few decades.
- Report
CBO describes how funding for the IRS affects CBO’s revenue projections and how CBO estimates the revenue effects of rescissions of such funding. CBO also estimates the budgetary effects of rescinding varying amounts of the IRS’s funding.
- Interactive
This interactive workbook allows users to see how revenues and outlays that differed from those in CBO’s February 2024 baseline budget projections would increase or decrease net interest costs and thus affect deficits and debt.
- Blog Post
CBO's Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses his most recent and upcoming presentations about the projections in CBO’s report, "The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034."
- Report
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, testifies before the House Budget Committee.
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Parameters used in CBO’s microsimulation tax model and effective marginal tax rates on labor and capital.
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Trust fund balances projected in CBO’s baseline.