Republicans in House push for Congressional Budget Office cuts

[Miles Archer]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking to add an amendment this week to spending legislation that would slash the number of staff at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The budget research office, known as the CBO, has drawn recent Republican criticism, including from the White House, after it concluded that Republican proposals to replace Obamacare would lead to 23 million more Americans being uninsured if they became law.

Representative Mark Meadows, head of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said on Monday his colleague Morgan Griffith has offered an amendment to an appropriations bill the House is expected to take up this week that would cut the CBO's staff of 235 by 89 employees, saving about $15 million.

"They ought to be aggregators," Meadows said of the CBO at a National Press Club lunch. "There's plenty of think tanks that are out there. We ought to take a score from Heritage, from AEI (American Enterprise Institute), from Brookings, from the Urban Institute and bring them together for a composite score."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-cbo-idUSKBN1A92KN

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Makes sense if you know you lie about everything and the CBO doesnt.

Between this and that fucking John K. Bush, I am losing it.

[riversedge]

2. Evil resides within these congressional Republicans. Yes, it. does.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-idUSKBN1A912Q

.....The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the Senate's replacement bill could lead to as many as 22 million fewer Americans being insured. A plan to repeal Obamacare without replacing it could cost 32 million Americans their health insurance by 2026, CBO estimated.

At the same time, premiums on individual insurance plans would rise 25 percent next year and double by 2026 if Obamacare is repealed, CBO said.

Uncertainty over the future of healthcare has left health insurance companies and U.S. states as well as hospitals and doctors unclear about future funding and coverage.

Public opinion polls also show Americans worried about potential changes to the healthcare system. .................

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. They can't plausibly deny the message, so they want to shoot the messenger. . . . nt

[forgotmylogin]

7. And it will make their healthcare bills' scores come out slower.

Cuz you know, they're going to bang on this till 2018.

[dalton99a]

4. Our government is being trashed at warp speed

[Solly Mack]

5. Damn

[byronius]

6. Crooks always want to defund the cops that catch them.

[summer_in_TX]

8. The new No Nothing Party!

They're absolutely determined to prevent examination of any evidence by themselves or anyone else, seems to me.

The Heritage Foundation and AEI, for heaven's sake, exist for the purpose of propaganda that sounds like it's base in fact. Right-wing funded think tanks that fund slanted research and train up conservative "experts" to serve on tap as pundits to spread the manure up with credentials and a suit. We're already in deep do-do, but if this goes through it'll be much worse.