The CBO has become nakedly political in the past two years. How else can anyone explain their claim last year that cutting spending alone, with no other adjustments, would somehow increase the deficit?
They have totally destroyed their credibility.
Ahem.... the CBO has been nakedly blue dress political since at least Slick's second term, so nothing new there. ANYTHING having to do with government is political - and they have destroyed their credibility completely AFAIC during the last 10 years.
So, the same applies to Trump in terms of how things are spun to create the best political narratives that can be used to sway opinion and push agendas and popularity - even if the actual facts are bullshit.
That said, that an additional 2.3 trillion in debt is suddenly acknowledged is not only more than likely - but from my gleaning of the news - exactly the fact. Trump signed a total of nearly 3 Trillion in debt for the next two years alone with two spending authorizations in both February and March: 1.4 Trillion in new military spending for the Pentagon signed on February 9th - and the Omnibus and infamous 1.3 Trillion Government Spending bill signed a month later. Everyone is still stuck on reporting 1.3 or 1.5 Trillion - but it was indeed nearly 3 Trillion for the next two years. That kind of debt is not sustainable, and the consequences are going to crush us and our posterity.
