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House conservatives move to abolish congressional budget office

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The jobs of 89 federal workers involved in estimating the budget impact of legislation in Congress would be eliminated under a proposal from members of the House’s upstart conservative caucus.


Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said Monday that members would deploy an obscure rule that allows a House member to seek changes in an agency by offering an amendment during the budget process.
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Called the Holman rule, it dates to the decade after the Civil War, hasn’t been used since President Ronald Reagan’s first term, and was revived by House Republicans when the new Congress convened in January.


Federal News Radio reported that the entire Budget Analysis Division of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, comprising 89 employees and about $15 million in salaries, would be “abolished” under the amendment offered by Meadows and three other Republicans—Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.


Meadows and the other three House members attached the amendment cutting the CBO to a so-called “minibus” of spending bills for fiscal year 2018 that includes defense, military construction, veterans affairs, energy, and water, according to Federal News Radio.
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This is about as conservative as you can get. "Your facts are getting in the way of my agenda". Therefore let's get rid of the facts and replace it with biased think tank bull****.
 
Verax said:
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This is about as conservative as you can get. "Your facts are getting in the way of my agenda". Therefore let's get rid of the facts and replace it with biased think tank bull****.
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I think the CBO serves a potentially valuable purpose, but their value is certainly overstated. Their 'facts' are at the best of times, educated guesses. The CBO does seem to have some highly inflated salaries though for the questionable value of their assessments. It appears to me the CBO should stay, but maybe some budget trimming is in order.
 
The idea of an assessment is a fairly sophisticated thing and that is beyond the conservative mindset
 
ModerateRN said:
I think the CBO serves a potentially valuable purpose, but their value is certainly overstated. Their 'facts' are at the best of times, educated guesses. The CBO does seem to have some highly inflated salaries though for the questionable value of their assessments. It appears to me the CBO should stay, but maybe some budget trimming is in order.
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I'm pretty sure the level of education needed to make macroeconomic predictions does not come cheap. You want to skimp and get grad students? Surely, it's worth spending on quality talent to get the best possible predictions.
 
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