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Congress’s Budget Referee Confronts Swarm of GOP Critics
In an interview, Phill Swagel defended the CBO’s forecasting record as Republicans blast the fiscal scorekeeping agency’s ...
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‘Nonpartisan’ Congressional Budget Office Is Not So Nonpartisan After All, New Report Shows
The supposedly “nonpartisan” Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides Congress with cost estimates for its policy ...
AI regulation moratorium dropped in Senate budget package
A controversial ban on state AI regulations in the House-passed "big, beautiful" measure was left out of the Senate Commerce ...
Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE
Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an ...
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WATCH: Vought said Trump could ask to rescind more money if Congress approves first request
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told a House committee on Wednesday that the Trump administration could ...
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 ...
The Latest: 10.9 million more people projected to lose insurance in 2034 from GOP tax bill cuts
The Congressional Budget Office estimates an increase of 10.9 million people without health insurance under President Donald ...
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 ...