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Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Congress's Budget Referee Confronts Swarm of GOP Critics
WASHINGTON—Phill Swagel expected this. Well, most of it. Swagel, a mild-mannered academic economist, runs the Congressional Budget Office, the fiscal scorekeeping agency getting blasted by Republicans as they try to push their tax-and-spending megabill through Congress by July 4. They say CBO is too pessimistic on economic growth and tilts against the GOP, unfairly fueling charges that the measure is fiscally irresponsible.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Congress's Budget Referee Confronts Swarm of GOP Critics
In an interview, Phill Swagel defended the CBO's forecasting record as Republicans blast the fiscal scorekeeping agency's assessment of their tax-and-spending megabill.
