Each quarter, CBO provides information about its work in progress. As of January 8, the agency was working on 184 cost estimates for bills in addition to 33 analytic reports and working papers.

    

CBO uses the budgetary feedback model (BFM) to estimate how changes in the macroeconomy might affect the federal budget. This paper describes how the BFM is constructed, how it is used in CBO's dynamic analyses, and the model's limitations.