Budget
- Presentation
Federal Health Spending Update
Presentation on federal health care spending by Carrie Colla, Director of CBO's Health Analysis Division, at a Trustee Briefing of the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board.
- Report
An Update to the Budget Outlook: 2023 to 2033
CBO’s updated projections show a federal budget deficit of $1.5 trillion for 2023. That estimate is subject to considerable uncertainty, though, in part because of a recent shortfall in tax revenues.
- Report
Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, May 2023
CBO projects that if the debt limit remains unchanged, there is a significant risk that at some point in the first two weeks of June, the government will no longer be able to pay all of its obligations.
- Presentation
The Budget Outlook and Options for Reducing the Deficit
Presentation by Julie Topoleski, Director of CBO’s Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, and Molly Saunders-Scott, analyst in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, at the National Tax Association’s 53rd Annual Spring Symposium.
- Report
Monthly Budget Review: April 2023
The federal budget deficit was $928 billion in the first seven months of fiscal year 2023, CBO estimates—$568 billion more than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year.
- Presentation
Long-Term Projections of Health Care Spending and the Implications for the Federal Budget
Presentation by Julie Topoleski, Director of CBO’s Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the 15th Annual Meeting of the OECD’s Working Party of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
- Blog Post
CBO Sees Greater Risk That the Treasury Will Run Out of Funds in Early June
Because tax receipts through April have been less than CBO anticipated in February, the agency now estimates that there is a significantly greater risk that the Treasury will run out of funds in early June if the debt ceiling is unchanged.
- Report
How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2023 to 2033
To show how variations in economic conditions might affect its budget projections, CBO analyzed how revenues, outlays, and deficits might change if the values of key economic variables differed from those in the agency’s forecast.
- Report
Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2023
CBO reports annually on programs whose authorizations of appropriations have already expired or will expire.
- Report
The Medicare and Medicaid Improvement Funds: Budgetary History and Projections
CBO describes features of the Medicare and Medicaid improvement funds and how the funds are accounted for in CBO’s baseline and cost estimates.