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'One Big Beautiful Bill' boosts highest earners most, Congressional Budget Office says
The Congressional Budget Office says highest earners will benefit most from the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill." Here'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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says
President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by ...
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, ...
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US May Exhaust Debt-Ceiling Measures in Mid-August, CBO Says
The US government could run out of enough funds to meet its financial obligations in a timely manner between mid-August and ...
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, ...