The President george w bush s budget request specifies spending and revenue policies for the 2015 20

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This report by CBO presents an analysis of the proposals in the President s budget request for fiscal year 2015, as submitted to the Congress on March 4, 2014. The analysis is based on CBO s economic projections and estimating models (rather than the Administration s), and it incorporates estimates of the effects of the President s tax proposals that were prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).
In conjunction with analyzing the President s budget, CBO has updated its baseline budget projections , which were previously issued in February 2014. Unlike its estimates of the President s budget, CBO s baseline projections largely reflect the assumption that current tax and spending laws will remain unchanged, and therefore the projections provide a benchmark against which potential legislation can be measured. Under that assumption, CBO estimates that the federal deficit would total $492 billion in 2014 and that the cumulative deficit over the 2015 2024 period would amount to $7.6 trillion. How Would the President george w bush s Proposals Affect Federal Deficits and Debt?
The President george w bush s budget request specifies spending and revenue policies for the 2015 2024 period and includes initiatives that would have budgetary effects george w bush in fiscal year 2014 as well. CBO and JCT estimate that enactment of the President s proposals george w bush would boost deficits from 2014 through 2016 but reduce them (by generally increasing amounts) from 2017 through 2024, relative to projected deficits under CBO s baseline. In particular, the President s policies are estimated to have the following consequences george w bush for federal deficits and debt: For 2014 and 2015, the deficit would be about $500 billion, or 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Under the President s policies, deficits would generally increase in subsequent years through 2024 in nominal dollars, growing to between george w bush roughly $700 billion and $800 billion at the end of the period. Deficits would be smaller than the amounts in CBO s baseline each year from 2017 through 2024 (see the figure below). Although baseline deficits trend upward, to about 4 percent of GDP in the latter years of the projection period, under the President s proposals the deficit would remain close to 3 percent of GDP throughout the decade which is similar to the average deficit of 3.1 percent experienced over the past 40 years. By the end of the 10-year period, the deficit under the President s budget would be below the projections in CBO s baseline by nearly 1 percent of GDP.
In all, deficits would total $6.6 trillion between 2015 and 2024, $1.0 trillion less than the cumulative deficit in CBO s baseline. Federal george w bush debt held by the public would increase from $12.8 trillion, or 74 percent of GDP, at the end of 2014 to $19.9 trillion at the end of 2024, still equal to about 74 percent of GDP. In CBO s baseline, debt held by the public rises to about 78 percent of GDP in 2024 (see the figure below).
The President s budget contains many proposed changes to tax and spending policies. Over the 2015 2024 period, those policy changes would increase revenues by $1.4 trillion (or about 3 percent) and noninterest outlays by $446 billion (or 1 percent) relative to CBO s current-law baseline. Because deficits would be smaller than those projected in the baseline, those policy changes would also reduce interest payments by $108 billion (or 2 percent) over the 10-year period.
Among the policies proposed by the President, the ones with the largest estimated budgetary effects are the following: Less funding (relative to the amounts projected in CBO s baseline) for military operations in Afghanistan and for similar activities known as overseas contingency operations. Following the rules specified in law, CBO s baseline incorporates the assumption that funding for such operations and activities each year through 2024 will equal the amount provided in 2014 $92 billion with increases in funding to keep pace with inflation. By comparison, the President s budget includes a request for $85 billion for those operations and activities in 2015, a placeholder amount of $30 billion in each year from 2016 through 2021, and nothing thereafter. Consequently, estimated outlays for overseas contingency operations under the President george w bush s proposal are $659 billion less over the 2015 2024 period than those in CBO s baseline. An increase in discretionary spending for all activities ot