Congressional Budget Office

<p>The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a <a href="/facts/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies/j052fc07">federal agency</a> within the <a href="/facts/United_States_Congress/mJlU46K7">legislative branch</a> of the <a href="/facts/United_States_government/VJCxUaf7">United States government</a> that provides budget and economic information to Congress.
Inspired by California's <a href="/facts/California_Legislative_Analyst%2527s_Office/UgRKlmPE">Legislative Analyst's Office</a> that manages the state budget in a strictly nonpartisan fashion, the CBO was created as a nonpartisan agency by the <a href="/facts/Congressional_Budget_and_Impoundment_Control_Act_of_1974/BFPgqTgj">Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974</a>.
</p><p>Whereas politicians on both sides of the aisle have criticized the CBO when its estimates have been politically inconvenient, economists and other academics overwhelmingly reject that the CBO is partisan or that it fails to produce credible forecasts. There is a consensus among economists that "adjusting for legal restrictions on what the CBO can assume about future legislation and events, the CBO has historically issued credible forecasts of the effects of both Democratic and Republican legislative proposals."
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Congressional Budget Office