And away we go! Yes the love/hate relationship of the CBO is in full force by GOP/DEM alike. Only love ’em when the numbers are on your side – PB/TK
Gingrich: ‘Corrupt’ CBO should be abolished – BY JOE CONCHA – 03/13/17
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) slammed the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) scoring of Republican health care legislation, calling it “disgustingly wrong” and recommending that the office be abolished.
“They should abolish the Congressional Budget Office. It is corrupt. It is dishonest. It was totally wrong on ObamaCare by huge, huge margins,” Gingrich said to Fox’s Martha MacCallum on “The First 100 Days.
“I don’t trust a single word they have published and I don’t believe them.”
MacCallum pushed back at Gingrich, noting that the office’s director, Keith Hall, was appointed by congressional Republicans.
“People maybe misjudge what they’re supposed to do,” MacCallum said. “Their job is figure out whether or not this is something that can get through on reconciliation, right? Not to make a judgment about the whole bill.”
In response, Gingrich drew on his own experiences in the 1990s as Speaker.
Continue to thehill.com article: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/323811-gingrich-corrupt-cbo-should-be-abolished
