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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 12:03:17 AM
The Congressional Budget Office’s projection about the
Republican health care bill is expected this week.
By Igor Bobic
03/13/2017 11:00 am ET
Members of President Donald Trump’s administration attempted to pre-emptively discredit the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office over the weekend ? just before it’s expected to issue an official projection of how the Republican health care bill would affect the federal budget and insurance coverage.
On Sunday, the White House chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, argued that CBO projections have been “meaningless” in the past because they said “many more people will be insured than are actually insured.” Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, even made the case that scoring big legislation like the GOP’s Obamacare repeal bill “isn’t the best use of [the CBO’s] time.”
But for the last several years, Trump himself has appeared to be a big fan of the CBO and its analysis. In fact, he frequently cited the office’s work in attacks against former President Barack Obama’s record on health care, jobs, the unemployment rate and the economy.
Here’s a sampling of some of Trump’s tweets citing CBO figures to criticize Obama:
The stimulus “is a net negative effect on the growth of GDP over 10 years” —as admitted by @BarackObama‘s own CBO http://t.co/otaKcGOV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2011
The CBO has confirmed that @BarackObama‘s stimulus “crowds out” private investment while not creating any jobs. http://t.co/nMSky9jb
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2011
he CBO has predicted that unemployment will rise to 8.8% this next year. http://t.co/AsMhkOre This is @BarackObama‘s economic recovery.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2012
Disaster! The @BarackObama tax hikes set for 2013 are going “to throw us back into a recession” according to the CBO http://t.co/DnIZD13r
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2012
Scary—the CBO esimated that US publicly held debt amounts to over 70%. China is buying our country up.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cbo-obamacare-repeal-bill_us_58c698ade4b0ed71826dd368?
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