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CBO: Biden Min. Wage Hike Would Cost 1.4 Mil. Jobs in 2025, Raise Budget Deficit by $54 Bil. Over 10 Years

Nick Kangadis
February. 9. 2021
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"Higher prices for goods and services—stemming from the higher wages of workers paid at or near the minimum wage, such as those providing long-term health care—would contribute to increases in federal...

CBO Estimates Biden's Move to $15 Min. Wage Could Cost 3.7 Million American Jobs

Nick Kangadis
January. 20. 2021
17.8k views

"...if you work for less than $15 an hour and work 40 hours a week, you’re living in poverty," Biden said last week.

Nets Ignore CBO Report: $15/Hour Could Cost Almost 4 Million Jobs

Nicholas Fondacaro
July. 8. 2019
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In a 48-page report out Monday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of the Democratic “Raise the Wage Act” to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour. One of the...

WATCH: Dan Crenshaw Gives Some Hard Truths About Pitfalls of Single-Payer Healthcare

Nick Kangadis
May. 23. 2019
2.9k views

"They will have to cut resources," Crenshaw said on Wednesday. "They will hire less. They will buy less equipment. It is simple economics."

Congressional Budget Office Projects Federal Deficit to Reach $896 Bil. For FY2019

Nick Kangadis
May. 3. 2019
543 views

The CBO has projected that 2019’s federal deficit would reach $896 billion, "only $1 billion smaller than the deficit it projected in January."

Pence: The Only Thing Green about the Green New Deal ‘Is How Much Green It’s Going to Cost Taxpayers’

melanie.hunter
March. 1. 2019
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Vice President Mike Pence blasted Democrats who have embraced socialism, pointing out how unsuccessful it has been for Venezuela, and criticized the Democrats’ Green New Deal which is estimated to cost...

New CBO Report Says Obamacare Plans Will Increase 15% In 2018

Brittany M. Hughes
September. 15. 2017
369 views

Of course, anyone familiar with Obamacare is unlikely to be shocked by the CBO's new estimate.

CNN's Cuomo Got Super Defensive With a Senator About 'Fake News'

Nick Kangadis
June. 29. 2017
3.3k views

"I know you’re not suggesting that I’m using misleading information, right?"

CBS Complains GOP Wasn’t ‘Modest’ in Health Care Victory; Touts Dems Protesting

Curtis Houck
May. 4. 2017
360 views

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Seconds after the Republican House of Representatives finally passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), CBS News did their best on Thursday to...

WH: CBO ‘Pretty Good at Dollars, Not as Good at People’

melanie.hunter
March. 14. 2017
27 views

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday criticized the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the American Health Care Act - the House version of the repeal and replacement of Obamacare...

WH Explains Trump’s ‘Phony in the Past, But It’s Very Real Now’ Comment

melanie.hunter
March. 13. 2017
57 views

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Monday clarified remarks that President Donald Trump made Friday regarding the jobs numbers being “very real now” after calling them “phony”...

Fla. Rep. Buchanan Introduces Bill Freezing Congressional Pay Raises

Nick Kangadis
January. 26. 2017
34 views

Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) has introduced a new bill that would effectively freeze all congressional raises should Congress not balance the federal budget during any fiscal year. The bill is called the...

CBO Director Can't 'Get My Mind Around' Rep. Brat's Economists Question

Brad Fox
January. 28. 2015
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Photo Credit: U.S. News U.S. Congressman Dave Brat (R-Va.) debated with the Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf about putting the nation's people above illegal...

Sen. Harry Reid: Gruber Is One of the ‘Most Respected Economists In The World’

Katie Rodriguez
November. 14. 2014
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Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) in a December 2009 floor speech on Capitol Hill lauded Jonathan Gruber as one of the most “respected economists in the world” as Reid cited facts defending the Senate’s...

Sen. Harry Reid: Gruber Is One of The ‘Most Respected Economists In The World’

Katie Rodriguez
November. 14. 2014
147 views

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) in a December 2009 floor speech on Capitol Hill lauded Jonathan Gruber as one of the most “respected economists in the world” as Reid cited facts defending the Senate’s...

Flashback: Watch Pelosi, Reid, Baucus Praise Obamacare Architect Who Called Americans Stupid

Katie Rodriguez
November. 14. 2014
27 views

Obamacare's chief architect Jonathan Gruber doesn't seem to have a lot of fans right now as more videos surface of him calling the American public stupid and gullible for supporting the healthcare...

Sen. Max Baucus: 'Most People' Say Gruber Is One of the 'Best Outside Experts' on Obamacare

Katie Rodriguez
November. 14. 2014
142 views

In this floor speech from 2009, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) cites MIT professor Jonathan Gruber's analysis of the Senate's Obamacare bill as a reason why his fellow members should support it.

Fox News Highlights Low Health Care Sign-Ups

Scott Whitlock
November. 11. 2014
87 views

In March, all three networks heralded a "sign-up surge" in ObamaCare numbers ahead of a deadline. Yet, when the administration announced on Monday that the number of people who enroll in the...

CBO Director: 'We have been Surprised and Disappointed by the Pace of Economic Recovery'

Eric Scheiner
March. 19. 2014
61 views

CBO: 'Surprised and Disappointed by Pace of Economic Recovery'- See more at:

CBO Director on Obama: 'We Don't Estimate Speeches"

Stephen Gutowski
June. 23. 2011
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After being questioned by Republican Paul Ryan on whether or not the CBO has calculated the claims in the President's April budget speech Doug Elmendorf responded that they had not. He said that they couldn't...