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Both Republicans and Democrats have used analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office as a political cudgel when it suits them, but with unfavorable reviews of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” coming out, some in the GOP are questioning the relevancy of the agency.
The CBO’s latest analysis of the gargantuan tax cut and spending package found that the House Republican-authored super bill would add $2.4 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade and boot millions off of health insurance.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is signaling that changes are likely to the House’s version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” (Getty Images)
Senate Republicans will now get their chance to tweak and change the legislation, and have vowed to do so, despite warnings from Trump to reshape the bill as little as possible.
Congressional Republicans have largely scoffed at the agency’s findings, arguing that the CBO doesn’t include expected economic growth or other factors into its scoring of the bill.
“I don’t care what the CBO says,” Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital. “They’re irrelevant to me. They were biased before. They’ve been biased in other things, but all the numbers speak for themselves.”
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Sen.-elect Jim Banks at the Capitol on Nov. 12, 2024. (Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images)
The agency’s latest score found that the House’s reconciliation offering would cut $1.2 trillion over a decade, add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and decrease revenues by $3.6 trillion. It also found that if the GOP’s proposals to slash Medicaid stay as is, nearly 11 million people would be booted from their health care.
That number cranks up to about 16 million Americans removed from the benefit rolls when…
