The White House’s political attacks on the Congressional Budget Office are raising eyebrows after Republicans asked the CBO to score Joe Biden’s social welfare and climate spending bill.
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- The latest CBO score of Biden’s social welfare and climate measure “cuts through the smoke-and-mirrors accounting the Democrats were using to ram through their costly reconciliation bill,” according to the Cato Institute’s tax policy director, Chris Edwards.
- “CBO should be open to critique, as economists often make mistakes,” Edwards said. “But in this case, CBO projections provide a more realistic accounting than the low-balled costs suggested by the Democrats.”
- Conventional CBO reports analyze the law “as it is written,” according to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s senior vice president, Bill Hoagland.
- But the request from Republicans Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri was “reasonable” because it is “hard to turn off programs once they begin.
- “That’s not fake. That’s just asking a hypothetical,” the Republican Senate budget and appropriations expert said. “I do disagree with adding interest on the public debt.”
SOURCE: WASHINGTONEXAMINER
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