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Source: US Congressional Budget Office
CBO projects that the military’s fighter fleet will shrink from about 3,300 aircraft now to about 3,000 by 2029 and then grow to 3,600 aircraft by 2040. Starting in 2033, more than half the fleet will be harder-to-detect stealthy aircraft.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
Federal subsidies for health insurance total $33.6 trillion over the 2026–2036 period in CBO and JCT’s projections. Those estimated subsidies grow from 7.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2026 to 8.4 percent of GDP in 2036.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
CBO is saddened by the unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham. We had the privilege of working closely with Senator Graham during his service as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and when he was the committee’s Ranking Member.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
CBO describes current methods to detect and counter small unmanned aircraft systems and estimates it would cost about $74 million to outfit a typical military installation with a layered defense and at least $5 million a year to support it.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
CBO estimates that the effects on direct spending and revenues of laws enacted in the first session of the 119th Congress will reduce outlays and decrease revenues from 2025 to 2034, which will increase the deficit by $3.5 trillion.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
CBO examines the distribution of income—and of the means-tested transfers and federal taxes that affect it—from 1979 to 2022, placing particular emphasis on the distributions in 2022 and how they differed from those in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
Depending on how DoD implements the order to use the name “Department of War,” CBO estimates that costs could range from a few million dollars up to $125 million. A modest implementation of the name change would cost about $10 million.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
In CBO’s projections, the U.S. population grows from 349 million people in 2026 to 364 million in 2056, and the average age rises. Starting in 2030, annual deaths exceed annual births, and net immigration accounts for all population growth.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
Transparency is an aspect of CBO’s work that the agency continually strives to improve—and one about which it often receives questions. CBO’s Director addresses some of the most common questions about the agency’s approach to transparency.