National Taxpayers Union Foundation: In rare case, CBO uses private modeling to forecast $1.4 billion flood insurance shortfall 

NTU Foundation’s Taxpayers’ Budget Office (TBO) project often criticizes the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for failing to take into account the best available modeling in its projections, but there are rare instances where the agency deserves praise for doing exactly that. CBO’s newest analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the government-run insurance program with a virtual ...