White House: CBO has no 'authority' to score health bill after botching Obamacare
By Pete Kasperowicz (@PeteKDCNews) • 3/8/17 2:24 PM
The Trump administration on Wednesday dismissed the importance of having the Congressional Budget Office "score" the Republican bill to repeal Obamacare, and said Congress's budget referee has no "authority" when it comes to cost estimates after it badly miscalculating the effects of the 2010 health law.
"Let's be honest, the irony of the score is that the CBO was way off the last time," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said. "I don't think that we're waiting to ... that that's a big issue to us right now."
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