Effects of Automatic Stabilizers on the Federal Budget: 2026 to 2036

Congressional Budget Office

No 62568, Reports from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Automatic stabilizers are the components of federal revenues and outlays that automatically increase or decrease with cyclical changes in the economy to help strengthen a weakening economy or cool an overheating one.In this report, CBO provides estimates of the budgetary effects of automatic stabilizers—as well as the size of federal budget deficits without them—over the past 50 years and in CBO's current economic forecast from 2026 to 2036.

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Date: 2026-08-31
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