What's more, the cbo only offers projections based on current laws.

更重要的是，CBO 只提供基于现行法律的预测。

On the cbo's trendline the federal debt would roughly double to nearly 250% of gdp by mid-century.

根据 CBO 的趋势线，到本世纪中叶，联邦债务将大致翻一番，达到 GDP 的近 250%。

The cbo does not include recessions in its projections.

CBO 的预测中不包括经济衰退。

The main reason the cbo recently revised up its deficit estimates for the 2020s is higher financing costs for the government.

CBO 最近上调 2020 年代赤字预估的主要原因是政府的融资成本更高。

Like many analysts, the cbo is also struggling to put a price tag on the Biden administration's vast new industrial policy.

与许多分析师一样，国会预算办公室也在努力为拜登政府庞大的新产业政策定价。

In its latest update in February, the Congressional Budget Office (cbo), a non-partisan body, projected that America's deficit would average 6.1% over the next decade.

在 2 月份的最新更新中， 无党派机构国会预算办公室 (CBO) 预测，未来十年美国的赤字平均为 6.1%。

In 2017 Donald Trump passed a series of tax cuts that are due to expire in 2025. In making its projections the cbo is required by statute to assume that they will expire as scheduled.

2017 年，唐纳德特朗普通过了一系列将于 2025 年到期的减税措施。在做出预测时，法规要求 CBO 假设它们将如期到期。

Whereas interest outlays amounted to less than half of defence spending over the past five decades, the cbo now projects they will be a third higher than such spending by 2033. The guns-or-butter dilemma risks becoming a bonds-not-guns straitjacket.

尽管在过去五年中利息支出不到国防支出的一半，但 CBO 现在预计， 到 2033 年， 利息支出将比国防支出高出三分之一。 枪支或黄油的困境有可能成为债券而非枪支的紧身衣。