Wait. So now the HERITAGE FOUNDATION will score bills while CBO is gutted?

[CousinIT]

The vile and evil billionaire Robert Mercer is behind this no doubt...

Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, plans on offering an amendment to spending legislation this week that would cut the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's staff by 89 people.

The proposed cuts come after a series of CBO reports predicted that tens of millions of people would become uninsured under various Republican plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Monday that, instead of relying on the CBO’s expertise to assess how much congressional bills would cost, the office should aggregate estimates produced by various think tanks like the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation.

“They ought to be aggregators, there are plenty of think tanks that are out there,” Meadows said at a National Press Club event.

Meadows said Griffiths would use a rule called the Holman Rule, which allows Congress to cut salaries for individual federal workers, for the first time since 1983.

The Freedom Caucus and many members of the Trump administration have been highly critical of the CBO. The CBO has consistently stated that efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would lead to a 20 million-person increase in the nation’s uninsured.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/343470-gop-rep-to-push-cbo-budget-cuts

[underpants]

1. Privatizing facts just like Santorum tried to privatize the weather

2005
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2005/08/santorums_mighty_wind.html

[dalton99a]

3. Exactly.

[Zoonart]

2. Which of us still hold out the hope...

that we are NOT witnessing a coup?

[Docreed2003]

4. Not shocked that this would be on their agenda...

If you can control the data, control the release of negative information regarding your agenda, then all manner of, no pun intended, deplorable things become possible, when they otherwise wouldn't.

[procon]

5. Fearless Leader Trump can't stand anything but lavish praise.

If the CBO won't deliver fawning accolades in support of his crackpot ideas then he will eliminate them, just like he'd done with State and the EPA. It won't be long before the only office in the government that remains open is the Throne Room.

[Frustratedlady]

6. I smell the Koch Bros.

They want to control the numbers given to the public and Democrats so they can pass more bills. We have people in place to figure out the information and just because you don't like the figures, doesn't mean you have to bring in Republican-leaning foundations to come up with figures that are acceptable to everyone.

No!