Transparency at Congressional Budget Office: Plans for 2024 and a Review of 2023

This year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will undertake a variety of transparency activities. They include testifying before Congressional committees and answering Members’ questions, explaining CBO’s analytic methods, releasing data and models, analyzing the accuracy of the agency’s projections, comparing current estimates with previous ones, estimating the effects of policy alternatives, characterizing the uncertainty surrounding estimates, creating data visualizations, and conducting outreach.

In 2024, the agency will undertake a variety of activities aimed at fostering transparency, such as the following; sharing more information to help people understand the federal budget process and CBO’s role in it; and explaining the methods it uses for its analyses in several topic areas, including national security, climate change, and economic projections.