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Independent Fiscal Council
Enhance CBO architecture with mandatory 50- and 75-year scenario reporting, independent long-run assessment of major legislation, and a congressional response procedure. The Council assesses; it does not bind Congress.
- 10-year fiscal
- +$3B costModest cost
- Implementation
- Year 1
- Middle class
- Neutral directly
- Planetary
- Neutral
$2B–$5B · High confidence
Positive indirectly through better long-run fiscal management.
No direct climate instrument.
Global precedent
UK Office for Budget Responsibility (2010); Canadian Parliamentary Budget Officer (2008); Swedish Fiscal Policy Council; Australian PBO. OECD counts 50+ independent fiscal institutions.
Lead mechanism
Congressional action; Senate and House Budget Committees.
Bipartisan framing
Broadly bipartisan in principle, with support across multiple administrations and Congresses.
Figures in this framework are illustrative directional estimates derived from publicly available data and conventional Congressional Budget Office budget-window logic. They are not official CBO scores. Any provision adopted from this framework would require formal CBO scoring before legislative consideration. This document is a policy white paper, not an introduced bill.