As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on September 21, 2022

    

CBO’s Director describes the two volumes of budget options that the agency released today. They describe a variety of policies that would reduce federal budget deficits by increasing revenues or decreasing spending over the next 10 years.

    

CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.

    

CBO issues a volume that contains short descriptions of 59 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by less than $300 billion over the next 10 years.

    

CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, provides a written statement to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about how the agency would estimate the effects of future authorizing legislation on spending from the toxic exposures fund.

    

Presentation by Kathleen Burke and Shannon Mok, analysts in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, and Joseph Rosenberg, Deputy Director of CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, to the Brazilian Tax and Customs Administration.