截至2026年3月31日，国会预算办公室最近的出版物和正在进行的工作

APRIL | 2026 To provide Congress with a comprehensive review of itswork, the Congressional Budget Office publishes quar-terly reports that highlight the agency’s recent publica-tions and summarize its work in progress.1Over the pastthree months, CBO has produced a variety of budgetand economic analyses, fulfilling the agency’s mission ofsupporting Congress during each stage of the legislativeprocess. The agency’s work takes many forms, includingtechnical assistance to committees and Members whenthey are crafting legislation, cost estimates of legislation,testimonies, reports, and other analytical products. This past quarter, the agency published 263 cost esti-mates, including the following: •Acost estimatefor H.R. 2102, the Major Richard StarAct, which would permit Chapter 61 retirees—servicemembers who have retired from the armed forcesbecause of a disability—to receive the full amountof both their military retired pay and their veterans’disability compensation; •Acost estimatefor H.R. 7008, the Stop InsiderTrading Act, which would prohibit Members ofCongress and their spouses and dependent childrenfrom buying certain financial assets while the Memberis in office; Recent Cost EstimatesThrough its technical assistance andcost estimates,CBO provides Congress with information about the effects ofproposed legislation on the federal budget. The agency isrequired by law to prepare a cost estimate for nearly everybill that is approved by a full Congressional committee ofthe House of Representatives or the Senate. The agencypublishes cost estimates at other stages of the legislativeprocess, too, if requested to do so by a relevant commit-tee or by Congressional leadership. CBO also estimatesthe budgetary effects ofbillsscheduled to be consideredunder suspension of the rules in the House, a proceduresometimes used to consider legislation on the House floorin an expedited manner.2 •Acost estimatefor H.R. 2641, the Day 1,Dollar 1 E-Verify Act, which would require all federalcontractors and their subcontractors to use E-Verify,a federal web-based system that allows public- andprivate-sector employers to confirm that newly hiredemployees are eligible to work in the United States; •Acost estimatefor S. 3249, the Strategic SubseaCables Act of 2026, which would direct theAdministration to protect the global network ofundersea fiber-optic cables and other critical underseainfrastructure; •Acost estimatefor H.R. 7148, the ConsolidatedAppropriations Act, 2026, which would providefull-year appropriations and authorities for fiscalyear 2026 for agencies covered by 3 of the 12 annualappropriation acts; •Acost estimatefor H.R. 7006, the FinancialServices and General Government and NationalSecurity, Department of State, and Related ProgramsAppropriations Act, 2026, which would providefull-year appropriations and authorities for fiscal year Publication Data source: Congressional Budget Office. transitioning genders (sometimes referred to asgender-affirming care); and 2026 for agencies covered by 2 of the 12 annualappropriation acts; •Acost estimatefor H.R. 3380, the TAILOR Actof 2025, which would require federal financialregulatory agencies to limit the burden of financialregulations by tailoring regulatory actions to therelevant institutions on the basis of their risk profilesand business models. •Acost estimatefor S. 2975, the PIPELINE Safety Actof 2025, which would reauthorize the pipeline safetyprograms of the Pipeline and Hazardous MaterialsSafety Administration through 2030; •Acost estimatefor S. 836, the Children and Teens’Online Privacy Protection Act, which would amendprovisions of the Children’s Online Privacy ProtectionAct to establish new protections for children underthe age of 13 and to extend protections to teenagersunder the age of 17; Recent Analytical ReportsIn addition to cost estimates, CBO has released 29 reports, testimonies, and other analytical productssince publishing its last quarterly report on the agency’swork in progress (seeTable 1). •Acost estimatefor H.R. 3492, the Protect Children’sInnocence Act, which would create new criminalpenalties for providing certain surgeries and drugtreatments to minors that assist with them in Notably, CBO continued to bolster its efforts to betransparent about its methods and data. As part of those •Thedatafor CBO’s long-term budget outlook;•Aslide deckexamining the distribution of householdincome, means-tested transfers, and federal taxes in2022 and the associated trends since 1979;•Ashort reportdetailing CBO’s current view of theeconomy from 2026 to 2028;•A recurringshort reportidentifying expired andexpiring authorizations of appropriations; and•A recurringreportdescribing the agency’s currentestimates of the cost of federal credit programs. efforts, the agency posted on its website ablog postannouncing its plan to publish additional computercode on itsGitHub pagethat offers a closer look at themodeling underlying its analyses. CBO also release