CBO Boosts Transparency In the Face of Lawmaker Wrath

Government Executive: Congress’s nonpartisan budget arm wants you to understand how it crunches the numbers.

This year, in a bid for greater transparency, it published unprecedented details of its economic methods at a time when many Republicans are questioning the reliability of the 43-year-old Congressional Budget Office.

“Transparency is a top priority for CBO,” wrote Director Keith Hall Thursday in a report that outlined recent efforts to explain economic modeling while analyzing the accuracy of CBO’s past projections.

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