Newt Gingrich thinks Donald Trump should cut the left-wing, corrupt Congressional Budget Office

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Newt Gingrich thinks Donald Trump should cut the “left-wing, corrupt” Congressional Budget Office

by Matthew Rozsa at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/18/newt-gingrich-wants-to-get-rid-of-the-congressional-budget-office-because-their-data-may-not-fit-with-donald-trumps-plan/

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was one of Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters during his presidential campaign, now wants to abolish the Congressional Budget Office because it keeps using facts to undercut the president-elect’s economic claims.

“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is simply incompatible with the Trump era,” Gingrich wrote on his personal blog on Friday. He then focused his complaint on CBO’s then-anticipated report on the impact of repealing the Affordable Care Act.

“It is a left-wing, corrupt, bureaucratic defender of big government and liberalism,” Gingrich wrote. “Its scoring of Obamacare was not just wrong, it was clearly corrupt. CBO literally brought in the architect of Obamacare to be the adviser on scoring the very Obamacare legislation that he helped write. The score was a lie. It was so wrong it was totally indefensible. A year later the CBO produced a new score that was so much more expensive that it was clear Obamacare would have been defeated if it had been the original score.”

On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office revealed that a 2015 bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 18 million in the first year. That number would be expected to increase to 32 million by 2026. It also estimated that premiums in the nongroup market would increase by 20 to 25 percent within the first year and would roughly double by 2026.


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The Conservatives in Canada got rid of the long form census. The right wing does not like good information getting to the public for free. They want good information only to go to the rich who can afford to pay private research firms to get it. That way the middle class will not know it is being fleeced, or gerrymandered out of existance.

[shraby]

1. That G-D lizard should go back under his rotten log.

[democratisphere]

2. Spoken like the true criminal he is.

Let's get rid of all oversight of the upcoming fake lying adminstration so the country can be really raped.

[underpants]

3. All that mathing and figurin' and such

[dionysus]

4. Ol newt knows a thong or two about corruption!

[crazycatlady]

6. was that a typo?

[dionysus]

8. Yes, but a good one! Hahahaha... i hate ryping on phones...

[crazycatlady]

9. It was a good one

It had me laughing

[dionysus]

10. Typing with my thumbs i always hit n or b instead of space, or

o instead of i. .

[NCjack]

5. A couple of problems:

1. I didn't see in the cited article that Trump wants the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cut or killed. Newt is the guy who wants that.

2. The CBO is located in the Congress, staffed by the Congress, and funded by the Congress. So, as far as the Congress is concerned, Trump can pound sand.

3. When the Congress negotiates the budget with the White House, it comes down to comparison numbers between the Congressional Budget Office and the President's Office of Management and Budget. If there is no CBO, then the only numbers will come from the OMB, and that gives all credibility to the President.

4. My experience, the CBO usually makes worse cost estimates than OMB. What needs to be done is the Congress needs to reduce its interference in CBO and allow it to raise its level of professionalism.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Newty should shut the fuck up

and go back to selling fake certificates.

[Initech]

11. People like this asshole are the reason we can't have nice things.

Go back to your troll cave, Newt.

[spanone]

12. i love it when something gets newts panties in a wad....he's such a cad

blow it out yer ass newt

[Initech]

13. He looks like he's going to in that picture!

[TheFrenchRazor]

14. it's so obvious that the Trumplicans are going to shake down america for every penny it has. ntt