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Source: US Congressional Budget Office
S. 2201 would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to implement a multilingual campaign to increase cybersecurity literacy among the public. The bill would direct NIST to encourage people to mitigate risk by using publicly available resources. NIST also would be required to provide information on a variety of topics, including:
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
S. 2116 would require the Department of Commerce to contract with the National Academy of Public Administration to study programs operated by the department to improve the resilience of critical supply chains and provide technical assistance to U.S. manufacturers. The report would identify interagency gaps and duplicative responsibilities among offices and recommend improvements.
Using information from the Department of Commerce, CBO estimates that it would cost $2 million over the 2024-2028 period, including employee and contracting costs, to complete the study. Such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
This morning I spoke with the Federal Advisory Council about the U.S. economic and fiscal outlook. I discussed CBO’s latest economic and budget projections as well as CBO’s most recent Monthly Budget Review. I spoke about similar issues this afternoon as part of a roundtable discussion hosted by J.P. Morgan.
Phillip L. Swagel is CBO’s Director.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
By David Austin.
This paper presents a simulation model of the markets for light-duty electric vehicles (EVs) and the associated public charging infrastructure, as well as the network interactions between them. It illustrates the model’s attributes by simulating the effects of federal subsidies for public electric vehicle chargers and of an extension of tax credits for electric vehicles. I project that by the early 2030s the charger subsidies, which were signed into law in 2021 as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, will have increased the size of the charger network enough to meet the demand for charging through the middle of that decade. That includes the additional demand that the expansion itself will induce: I project that through 2030, sales of EVs will rise more than 20 percent more rapidly with the expanded charger network than they would have otherwise. Including the additional effect of the EV tax credits that were signed into law as part of the 2022 reconciliation act, as well as past growth in EV sales, I project that EVs will constitute between 27 percent and 60 percent of new light-duty vehicle sales by 2032, compared with about 6.5 percent in 2022. After the subsidy funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has been spent and the available EV tax credits claimed, EV charger networks and the EV fleet will remain somewhat larger than they would have been in the absence of those policies.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
S. 484 would require the Department of Commerce (DOC) to periodically train employees who provide counseling services to businesses engaged in interstate commerce or foreign direct investment on global human rights abuses. The bill also would direct DOC to provide guidance to such businesses, including ways to avoid doing business with countries implicated in human rights abuses.
CBO expects that the department would conduct training and update guidance once every three years starting in 2024. Using information from DOC, CBO estimates that implementing S. 484 would cost $1 million over the 2024-2028 period for temporary staff, contracts for online courses, and printed guides. Any spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
S. 1278 would designate the federal building at 985 Michigan Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the “Rosa Parks Federal Building” and repeal the same designation at 333 Mt. Elliott Street in Detroit, Michigan.
CBO estimates that naming and repealing the name of the facilities would have no significant cost.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
H.R. 532 would designate the federal building and United States courthouse at 600 East First Street in Rome, Georgia, as the “Harold L. Murphy Federal Building and United States Courthouse.”
CBO estimates that naming the facilities would have no significant cost.
Source: US Congressional Budget Office
S. 10 would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make several changes to its management of the department’s health care workforce, including raising salaries, increasing payments for continuing professional education, providing special incentive payments, and increasing training for employees who care for elderly veterans. The bill also would require the department to complete several studies and reports to the Congress related to training, recruiting, retaining, and managing health care employees.