To enhance the transparency of CBO’s work, the agency regularly provides information about the methods and calculations underlying its estimates.

    

This working paper describes the methods and calculations CBO used in its August 2015 baseline projections to estimate the effects of the Affordable Care Act on the labor market.

    

The federal budget deficit was $200 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2016, CBO estimates. That deficit was $22 billion larger than the one recorded during the same period last year.