Budget Options
- Report
Child Nutrition Programs: Spending and Policy Options
Since 1990, real spending for child nutrition programs more than doubled—to $20 billion in 2014. CBO expects that increases in food prices and demographic changes will cause spending to rise further in the future.
- Report
Federal Housing Assistance for Low-Income Households
CBO describes federal housing assistance to low-income households and how it has changed since 2000, provides information about the households that receive assistance, and assesses options for altering that assistance.
- Report
Communicating the Nation’s Fiscal Status
Letter to the Honorable Ron Johnson regarding CBO’s analyses of the long-term budget outlook and the agency’s work on policy options that would address long-term fiscal imbalances.
- Working Paper
Federal Reinsurance for Terrorism Risk in 2015 and Beyond: Working Paper 2015-04
CBO analyzed a variety of options for federal insurance against the risk of terrorism before the program was reauthorized in January 2015. This paper examines in more detail some options that might be considered in the future.
- Data and Technical Information
Medicare's Payment to Physicians: the Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's January 2015 Baseline
The table, Medicare’s Payment to Physicians: the Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies, includes estimates for several replacement and short-term alternatives to the current rules for setting Medicare’s payment rates for physicians’ services.
- Report
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Spending and Policy Options
This report examines spending on TANF, how TANF compares to other low-income support programs, and the effects of TANF on employment. CBO also analyzes policy options that would change the program’s funding and requirements for states.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2015 to 2024
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents 79—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit. The report has both interactive and printable formats.
- Data and Technical Information
Medicare's Payment to Physicians
The Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's April 2014 Baseline updated for the Final Physician Fee Schedule Rule
- Blog Post
Presentations About the Budget Outlook
Last week Director Doug Elmendorf spoke at Macroeconomic Advisers’ Washington Policy Seminar and at Cornell University.
- Presentation
Shifting Priorities in the Federal Budget
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, at Cornell University