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What's the CBO? Meet the nonpartisan agency under fire from Republicans.
Top Republicans, including President Trump, are criticizing the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office over its assessment ...
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Immigration surge cost state and local governments $9.2 billion in 2023, nonpartisan CBO finds
Recent migrants paid $10.1 billion in taxes but required $19.3 billion in services, with education and shelter driving the ...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said tariffs would reduce the purchasing power of households overall.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over a 10-year period ...
The White House’s disingenuous claim about CBO’s political leanings
So unfortunately, this is an institution in our country that has become partisan and political.” We have a high bar when it ...
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What is the CBO? A look at the budget office in the middle of the debate over Trump’s big bill
Lawmakers established the Congressional Budget Office more than 50 years ago to provide objective, impartial analysis to support the budget process. The CBO is required to produce a cost ...
GOP beats down key budget office over tax plan projections
Republicans are using Congress’s official budget scorer as a whipping boy, as they argue a major package of President Trump’s tax priorities is costless, despite multiple projections placing ...
Mike Johnson’s bogus attack on CBO’s score of the 2017 tax bill
The House speaker says the CBO missed by $1 trillion, but even the CBO couldn’t predict a pandemic.