State and Local Governments
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Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing Titled "Running on Empty: The Highway Trust Fund"
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Highways and Transit convened a hearing at which Chad Shirley, an analyst at CBO, testified. This document provides CBO's answers to questions submitted for the record.
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Testimony on the Status of the Highway Trust Fund: 2023 Update
Chad Shirley, a principal analyst at CBO, testifies on the status of the Highway Trust Fund before the House Transportation Committee’s Highway and Transit Subcommittee.
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Modeling the Demand for Electric Vehicles and the Supply of Charging Stations in the United States: Working Paper 2023-06
This paper presents a simulation model of the markets for light-duty electric vehicles and the associated public charging infrastructure, as well as the network interactions between them.
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CBO’s Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of Medicaid Work Requirements Under H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023
CBO estimates that Medicaid work requirements under H.R. 2811 would lead to lower federal costs, an increase in the number of uninsured people, no change in employment or hours worked by Medicaid recipients, and a rise in state costs.
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Budgetary Effects of Policies to Modify or Eliminate Medicaid’s Institutions for Mental Diseases Exclusion
CBO estimates the budgetary effects of options for expanding federal Medicaid payments to states for services provided to Medicaid enrollees ages 21 to 64 who are in inpatient facilities known as institutions for mental diseases.
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Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume I: Larger Reductions
CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.
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Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume II: Smaller Reductions
CBO issues a volume that contains short descriptions of 59 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by less than $300 billion over the next 10 years.
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Government Spending on Public Transportation and Other Infrastructure
Presentation by Nathan Musick, an analyst in CBO's Microeconomic Studies Division, to the National Tax Association's 52nd Annual Spring Symposium.
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Federal Financial Support for Public Transportation
In this report, CBO describes public transportation in the United States and explains how the federal government supports mass transit. The report also explains how financing subsidies provide additional federal support.
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Budgetary Effects of Making Specified Policies in the Build Back Better Act Permanent
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.