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Zorro

(15,745 posts)
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 07:59 PM Dec 2021

Here comes the next phony GOP attack on the Biden agenda

In their effort to derail President Biden’s agenda, Republicans have thrown an extraordinary array of lurid and absurd attacks at the provisions that comprise the Build Back Better proposal. One of their biggest arguments of all is that BBB will spend us into oblivion.

Now, Republicans are set to try yet another tack to bolster this case. They have commissioned a new estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that is designed to create the impression that the plan spends far more — and has a much bigger impact on the deficit — than it actually does.

And they’re using some pretty rank chicanery to do so. On Friday, the CBO estimate requested by Republicans will be released, according to Democratic sources and a CBO spokesperson, who confirmed it to us.

Here’s how it works: Republicans have asked the CBO to estimate how much the provisions in the version of BBB that passed the House will cost if they are continued for years beyond the date that the legislation actually stipulates that they’ll end.

The Republican driving this effort — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina — has been very explicit about this. He recently announced that the CBO had agreed to his request to estimate the cost of the bill if its provisions are made permanent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/09/here-comes-next-phony-gop-attack-biden-agenda/

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Here comes the next phony GOP attack on the Biden agenda (Original Post) Zorro Dec 2021 OP
I don't really think it should be called a phony attack. Once you give people a tax cut, doc03 Dec 2021 #1
Uh they have gamed the CBO reports for years IbogaProject Dec 2021 #2

doc03

(35,358 posts)
1. I don't really think it should be called a phony attack. Once you give people a tax cut,
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 08:16 PM
Dec 2021

tax credit, pre school, ext. it will be hard to take it off them. Example the ACA the Republicans tried for years to
get rid of it and failed. If it passes it will be hard to take it back. I think it will cost much more than what we are being told.
Senator Manchin will have a real problem supporting it.

IbogaProject

(2,822 posts)
2. Uh they have gamed the CBO reports for years
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 08:57 PM
Dec 2021

Uh they have gamed the CBO reports for years they underreported the effects of their tax cuts both under the Bush & Individual-1 administrations. Now they want to project them into forever.

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