Congressional Budget Office

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), founded in 1974, is a U.S. government agency providing nonpartisan budget and economic analysis to Congress. Classified as a government legislative support agency, it evaluates federal spending, revenues, and program costs. Key activities include scoring legislation, projecting deficits, and preparing baseline budgets. Notable achievements encompass accurate long-term forecasts aiding fiscal policy, such as analyses of defense and immigration impacts. In UAP/UFO context, CBO indirectly relates through congressional budget oversight of DoD programs like AARO, where lawmakers push for funding transparency on UAP research amid unclear allocations in $850B+ defense budgets. Currently active, it supports informed congressional decisions on UAP-related expenditures without direct research involvement.