Spurred by tax cut policy, backers of “dynamic scoring” want the math to include wider economic benefits, not just implementation costs.

Zach Moller talks about what a Congressional Budget Office score is and how it affects legislation.

The CBO report says a $15 minimum wage would pull 900,000 people out of poverty but cost almost 1.5 million jobs.

Even if the numbers return to where they once were, the economy is probably going to look very different.

The agency projects the COVID-19 pandemic will cost the U.S. almost $8 trillion in lost economic output this decade.

The CBO released a report this week estimating that over the next decade, the federal government will forgive $207 billion in student loans.

Credit the agency’s founding director, Alice Rivlin, who died this week.

"We think we'll be down about $3 billion of GDP," CBO Director Keith Hall says.

The Congressional Budget Office says deficits will nearly equal GDP by 2028. That can't be good, right?

The Congressional Budget Office says the tax and spending bills will increase the budget deficit by billions.