Congressional Budget Office

Budget Office Predicts Robust Economic Growth Through Year End

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said this week that the U.S. economy is poised for real GDP growth at an annualized rate of 12.4 percent in the second half of ...

July 3, 2020BY Alan McDonnell

Immigration Hurts Low-Skilled Workers, Congressional Budget Office Says

Immigration may boost the U.S. economy overall, but it doesn’t help individual workers, especially those at lower end ...

January 13, 2020BY Matthew Vadum

CBO Projections Show Debt Is on an Unsustainable Course

WASHINGTON—The latest economic outlook by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that if spending continues at the projected ...

January 29, 2019BY Emel Akan

House Budget Chairman Requests CBO Input on Design of ‘Single-Payer’ Health Legislation

In a letter to the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) asked ...

January 9, 2019BY Bowen Xiao

Politicians Are Failing Us on the Economy

A couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy’s long-term ...

September 27, 2015BY Lee H. Hamilton

CBO Releases White House Budget Analysis

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last Friday released its analysis of President Obama’s budget for fiscal year ...

March 18, 2012BY Clement Yang