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

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...

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

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...

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

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’

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

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”...

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

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’

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

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

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'

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

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...

CBO Releases New Debt Numbers

The CBO released new debt numbers today and it says under current law, total debt of the entire economy will be 70%. Vice President Biden is on the Hill working with lawmakers to find about $2 trillion...

CBO: "The Only Game In Town"

The network news media often hold up the Congressional Budget Office's "non-partisan" scores on health care reform as authoritative. But the former CBO director has said the claims are the result of nonsense...