This testimony reiterates the executive summary of The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034, which is one in a series of reports on the state of the budget and the economy that CBO issues each year. The report satisfies the requirement of section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for CBO to submit to the Committees on the Budget periodic reports about fiscal policy and to provide baseline projections of the federal budget.
Originally published at https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59907