Congressional Budget Office

CBO Cost Estimates

CBO publishes cost estimates for legislation under consideration by Congress, covering both direct spending and revenue impact and including PAYGO scoring. Cost estimates are released as PDFs along with HTML summaries on cbo.gov.

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Documentation
https://www.cbo.gov/cost-estimates

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Reference
https://www.cbo.gov/about/products/ce-faq
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Reference
https://www.cbo.gov/topics/budget

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: congressional-budget-office:cost-estimates
name: CBO Cost Estimates
description: CBO publishes cost estimates for legislation under consideration by Congress, covering both
  direct spending and revenue impact and including PAYGO scoring. Cost estimates are released as PDFs
  along with HTML summaries on cbo.gov.
humanURL: https://www.cbo.gov/cost-estimates
baseURL: https://www.cbo.gov
tags:
- Cost Estimate
- Legislation
- PAYGO
- Scoring
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cbo.gov/cost-estimates
- type: Reference
  url: https://www.cbo.gov/about/products/ce-faq
- type: Reference
  url: https://www.cbo.gov/topics/budget
x-features:
- Per-bill cost estimate documents indexed on cbo.gov
- PAYGO scoring summaries
- Mandatory and discretionary spending breakdowns
- PDF and HTML; no JSON API
x-useCases:
- Track cost estimates of pending legislation
- Analyze fiscal impact of bills under consideration
- Build legislative tracking pipelines that link bills to scores