{"id":11152,"date":"2017-05-06T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/05\/06\/as-gop-health-care-push-moves-to-senate-white-house-questions-value-of-cbo-analysis\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T20:56:00","slug":"as-gop-health-care-push-moves-to-senate-white-house-questions-value-of-cbo-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/as-gop-health-care-push-moves-to-senate-white-house-questions-value-of-cbo-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"As GOP Health Care Push Moves To Senate, White House Questions Value of CBO Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n President Donald Trump celebrates with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the White House Rose Garden Thursday after the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act.<\/p>\n

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After the GOP-controlled House passed a Republican-drafted health care bill Thursday without waiting for an analysis of the bill’s costs and impacts by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the White House is signaling that Washington’s official legislative scorekeeper could be its next political foil.<\/p>\n

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a spokeswoman for President Trump, told reporters Friday<\/a> the White House feels “very confident in where the plan is, and moving it forward.”<\/p>\n

“I think I know the gospel pretty well,” she also said<\/a>, “and I’d say the CBO is not the gospel.”<\/p>\n

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Sanders’ comments came a day after Doug Elmendorf, who ran the CBO from 2009-2015 during the Obama administration, told Politico<\/a> that the House’s decision to vote on the GOP health care bill before the CBO could score the latest version of the legislation was “a terrible mistake.”<\/p>\n

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“The members will have to explain why they supported something with a range of effects that people aren’t gonna like,” Elmendorf said. “At least if they waited for the estimate, they could make further changes to the bill that might respond to concerns. To go ahead with a vote before you know the effects of what you’re voting for is a terrible mistake.”<\/p>\n