Here comes the next phony GOP attack on the Biden agenda
In their effort to derail President Bidens 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 theyre 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.
Heres 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 theyll 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.
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