Budget | Congressional Budget Office (2024)

CBO's regular budget publications include semiannual reports on the budget and economic outlook, annual reports on the President's budget and the long-term budget picture, and a biannual set of options for reducing budget deficits. CBO also prepares cost estimates and mandate statements for nearly all bills that are reported by Congressional committees. Numerous analytic studies provide more in-depth analysis of specific budgetary issues.

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BUDGET PROJECTIONS FOR FY 2024

(As of )

OUTLAYS

$6.8 Trillion

REVENUES

$4.9 Trillion

DEFICIT

$1.9 Trillion

DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC (End of Fiscal Year)

$28.2 Trillion

  • Report

    An Analysis of the President’s 2025 Budget

    CBO and JCT have estimated the effects on revenues and spending of many of the President’s budgetary proposals. This report builds on an earlier one that focused on the President’s proposals for discretionary spending.

  • Report

    An Analysis of the Discretionary Spending Proposals in the President’s 2025 Budget

    CBO describes the discretionary spending proposals in the President’s 2025 budget and compares them with CBO’s most recent baseline budget projections, which span the years from 2024 to 2034.

  • Report

    An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034

    In CBO’s projections, the deficit totals nearly $2 trillion this year. Large deficits push federal debt held by the public to 122 percent of GDP in 2034. Economic growth slows to 2.0 percent in 2024 and 1.8 percent in 2026 and later years.

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    Budgetary Outcomes Under Alternative Assumptions About Spending and Revenues

    CBO provides information about how its most recent budget projections would change under different assumptions about future legislated policies.

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    How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2024 to 2034

    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.

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    The Long-Term Budget Outlook: 2024 to 2054

    The federal budget deficit increases significantly in relation to gross domestic product over the next 30 years, in CBO’s projections, pushing federal debt held by the public far beyond any previously recorded level.

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    The Federal Budget in Fiscal Year 2023: An Infographic

    The federal deficit in 2023 was $1.7 trillion, equal to 6.3 percent of gross domestic product.

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    The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034

    In CBO’s projections, federal budget deficits total $20 trillion over the 2025–2034 period and federal debt held by the public reaches 116 percent of GDP. Economic growth slows to 1.5 percent in 2024 and then continues at a moderate pace.

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    The 2023 Long-Term Budget Outlook

    The U.S. faces a challenging fiscal outlook in the coming years, according to CBO's projections. Measured as a percentage of GDP, large and sustained deficits lead to high and rising federal debt that exceeds any previously recorded level.

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    How the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 Affects CBO’s Projections of Federal Debt

    Deficit reductions under the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 reduce projected federal debt in 2033 by about 3 percent, from $46.7 trillion (or 119 percent of gross domestic product, or GDP) to $45.2 trillion (or 115 percent of GDP).

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    An Analysis of the Discretionary Spending Proposals in the President’s 2024 Budget

    CBO examines how the discretionary spending proposals in the President’s 2024 budget compare with CBO’s most recent baseline budget projections, which span 2023 to 2033.

  • Report

    Budgetary Outcomes Under Alternative Assumptions About Spending and Revenues

    CBO provides information about how its most recent budget projections would change under different assumptions about future legislated policies.

  • 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.

  • Report

    CBO Describes Its Cost-Estimating Process

    The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires CBO to prepare estimates of the cost of legislation at certain points in the legislative process. This document provides answers to questions about how CBO prepares those cost estimates.

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    CBO Explains How It Develops the Budget Baseline

    The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires CBO to produce an annual report on federal spending, revenues, and deficits or surpluses. This document provides answers to questions about how CBO prepares those baseline budget projections.

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    CBO Releases Infographics About the Federal Budget in Fiscal Year 2022

    View CBO’s budget infographics to see how much the federal government spent and took in during fiscal year 2022, as well as broader trends in the budget over the past few decades.

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    The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2023 to 2033

    In CBO’s projections, the federal deficit totals $1.4 trillion in 2023 and averages $2.0 trillion per year from 2024 to 2033. Real GDP growth comes to a halt in 2023 and then rebounds, averaging 2.4 percent from 2024 to 2027.

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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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    Common Budgetary Terms Explained

    This guide briefly explains—in plain language—the differences between some common budgetary terms.

  • Report

    Federal Debt: A Primer

    From the end of 2008 to 2019, the amount of federal debt held by the public nearly tripled. This report describes federal debt, various ways to measure it, CBO’s projections for the coming decade, and the consequences of its growth.

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