Example sentences for: cbo
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The WP reports that House GOP leaders, anxious to bolster their case for a large tax cut this year, are pressuring Congress' budget forecasting arm, the CBO, to produce rosier estimates of future surpluses.
The lesson of the huge 1996 mistake might seem to be that budget projections are futile--but the CBO has no choice but to project, and Congress has no choice but to accept that projection as gospel.
To avoid the substantial volatility in the implied interest rate after 2005 as a result of declining debt, interest rates are held constant at 5.4 percent-the average interest rate assumed by CBO on short- and long-term Treasury securities-from 2005 through the end of the simulation period.
It is equivalent to CBO's NIPA projection for Transfers, Grants, and Subsidies less Health, OASDI, and other discretionary spending.
A rough study by the CBO found that enlisted service members earned higher wages than three-quarters of male civilian high-school graduates of the same age, and officers earn higher wages than three-quarters of college graduates of the same age.