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The bill increases transparency and planning by requiring CBO to publish a predictable report schedule, trading modest staff costs and a risk of politicized scrutiny over report timing for better coordination and accountability.
Taxpayers, policymakers, state governments, researchers, and federal budget staff will get a published, predictable CBO report schedule, improving transparency, planning, and coordination of workloads and decision timelines.
Taxpayers will have greater visibility into CBO performance because a public schedule makes missed or delayed reports easier to detect, increasing accountability and oversight.
Taxpayers and federal employees could see increased politicization and criticism when CBO misses scheduled reports, since a fixed public timetable raises expectations even for legitimate analytic delays.
Federal employees at CBO must spend modest staff time preparing and maintaining the public schedule, which could slightly divert resources from analytic work.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires CBO to publish an annual public schedule of expected publication dates for major recurring CBO reports and permits limited updates the following year.
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to publish an annual schedule of expected publication dates for major recurring CBO reports on the CBO public website by December 31 each year, and allows the Director to update that schedule during the calendar year following its publication. The required schedule must at minimum list the baseline for the budget year and updates, the report on options to reduce the deficit, the report on the accuracy of budgetary projections for the most recently completed fiscal year, and the report on programs or activities with unauthorized appropriations.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Brandon Gill · Last progress November 19, 2025