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The bill increases transparency and planning by requiring CBO to publish a report schedule, benefiting taxpayers, policymakers, and budget staff, but it imposes small administrative costs and risks heightened criticism or politicization if timing slips.
Taxpayers, policymakers, and state governments get predictable, public timing for key CBO reports, improving transparency and allowing better fiscal planning.
Researchers, budget staff, and federal officials can better coordinate workloads and decision timelines because CBO may list baseline, deficit options, projection accuracy, and unauthorized-appropriations reports on a schedule.
Publishing the CBO's report schedule publicly increases accountability by making missed or delayed reports visible to the public.
A fixed public schedule could raise expectations and lead to criticism or politicization when reports are delayed for legitimate analytic reasons, affecting public trust and staff morale.
CBO will need to spend modest staff time to prepare and maintain the schedule, slightly diverting resources from other analytic work.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires CBO to publish an annual public schedule of expected publication dates for key recurring CBO reports by Dec 31 each year, with limited updates allowed.
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to publish each year an expected publication schedule for major recurring CBO reports on the agency website by December 31, and allows limited updates during the following calendar year. The schedule must at minimum list the baseline for the budget year and updates, the options to reduce the deficit report, the accuracy-of-projections report for the most recently completed fiscal year, and the report on programs with unauthorized appropriations; a clerical table-of-contents update is also made.
Official title: To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to direct the Congressional Budget Office to publish a schedule of the availability of certain publications by the Office, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Brandon Gill · Last progress November 19, 2025