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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 ...
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'One Big Beautiful Bill' boosts highest earners most, Congressional Budget Office says
The legislation dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill'' by President Donald Trump would increase resources for middle and top earners at the expense of lower-income Americans, according to a new analysis ...
Immigration surge cost state, local governments $9 billion in 2023, nonpartisan CBO says
Congressional Budget Office estimated that in 2023, about 550,000 children in public schools were immigrants who’d arrived ...
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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 ...
What is the Congressional Budget Office? And why is it a target of Trump?
The CBO released a report estimating that President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would increase the deficit by $2.4 ...
CBO: Debt limit ‘X-date’ likely not until mid-August at earliest
In its monthly budget review for May, Treasury altered its estimate to two weeks later than earlier estimates.
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Maddow Blog | GOP’s Tim Scott takes aim at the CBO but makes himself look bad accidentally
It's a problem that Republican Sen. Tim Scott accused the CBO of being wrong about things that happened before its existence, ...
Moore: Why the CBO almost always gets it wrong
These days it seems that a mysterious group called “the CBO” rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, ...