Democrats dominate Congressional Budget Office
The supposedly “nonpartisan” Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides Congress with cost estimates for its policy proposals, may not be the neutral arbiter it claims to be, a new report suggests.
The CBO was established in 1974 to “provide objective, nonpartisan information to support the Congressional budget process and to help the Congress make effective budget and economic policy.” However, a new report from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) — a right-of-center public policy think tank — found that the CBO is overwhelmingly staffed by Democrats, and that the agency has a history of scoring errors that benefit Democrats’ proposals.
Of the 84% of CBO employees the FGA was able to match with voter registration records, 78.9% of them were Democrats, while only 12.5% were Republicans and 8.6% were independent or unaffiliated. The disparity is even more pronounced in certain departments, such as the Health Division, which produces estimates for major programs like Medicare and Medicaid, where more than 93% of the staff are Democrats, FGA found. (RELATED: How A ‘Nonpartisan’ Government Budget Office May Be Misleading Lawmakers On Spending As GOP Megabill Looms Large)
Under Biden, after the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022, CBO said it would DECREASE the deficit by $58.1B over the following decade. In 2024, a CBO "update" said that the IRA would INCREASE the deficit by approx. $300B! Was the 2022 projection just political cover?...
They might want to call this the Democrat Budget Office until they allow more Republican officials. BTW, the Trump victory was not just a Republican one for him, but also gave Republicans the majority in both houses of Congress. Republicans tend to have a more conservative view of government spending.
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