{"id":1115037,"date":"2021-12-13T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115037"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:14:06","slug":"psaki-doubles-down-on-criticism-of-fake-cbo-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-doubles-down-on-criticism-of-fake-cbo-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Doubles Down On Criticism Of \u2018Fake\u2019 CBO Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-doubles-down-on-criticism-of-fake-cbo-score%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki continued Monday the Biden administration\u2019s criticism of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis finding that programs in the Build Back Better Act could add as much as $3 trillion to the federal debt over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an ask requested by [Republican South Carolina] Sen. [Lindsey] Graham to score a bill that is not currently being debated,\u201d Psaki said at a press conference, in response to a question from Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy about the analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/10\/congressional-budget-office-three-trillion-permanent-programs-joe-biden\/\">released<\/a> Friday. Psaki blasted the score as \u201cfake,\u201d adding that it is \u201cnot based on the actual bill that anyone is voting on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus is on the existing bill that will lower the deficit, that will also over an additional ten years pay for the $2 trillion tax cuts that Republicans did not pay for. They are welcome for that. So I would say Peter, to your question, the president has conveyed very clearly, multiple times publicly, that he would like programs, if they are extended, to be paid for. That remains his commitment, but it is important to understand when anyone raises a question about this new CBO score, it is a fake score about a bill that doesn\u2019t exist and we should really focus on the actual bill everyone is actually going to vote on and consider in Congress right now,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Build Back Better Act currently assumes that provisions like a child tax credit will expire, despite the fact that many Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2021\/12\/09\/congress-child-tax-credit-expiring\/\">called<\/a> for them to be made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/14\/us\/politics\/democrats-budget.html\">permanent<\/a>. The Build Back Better Act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2021-12\/57673-BBBA-GrahamSmith-Letter.pdf\">assumes<\/a> that the child tax credit will expire after 2022, and new federal funding for child care and preschools will expire after 2027. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/exclusive-par-for-the-course-former-cbo-director-says-white-house-attacks-on-report-are-classic-partisan-pushback\/\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: \u2018Par For The Course\u2019: Former CBO Director Says White House Attacks On Report Are Classic Partisan Pushback)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham revealed on Sunday that Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin had predicted to him that making the Build Back Better provisions permanent would lead to a doubling of the bill\u2019s cost. Manchin had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/01\/manchin-blasts-build-back-better\/\">blasted<\/a> the expiration dates as \u201cshell games\u201d and \u201cbudget gimmicks\u201d designed to disguise the true cost of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Manchin came to me and he said, \u2018I think this bill is full of gimmicks, that these programs won\u2019t go away, Lindsey, and if you score them for 10 years, I think the bill will double.\u2019 Well, it didn\u2019t double, it was almost 2.5 times,\u201d Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/lindsey-graham-democrats-lying-cost-build-back-better-after-cbo-projection\">told<\/a> Fox News\u2019 Chris Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki previously derided the score as \u201cfake\u201d during her Friday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about the existing bill anybody is debating or voting on,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1469397628991545349\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis is about proposing the extension of programs that has not been agreed to, without the commitment of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CBO <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/build-back-better-367-billion-congressional-budget-office\/\">found<\/a> that the bill as written would add up to $207 billion over a ten-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki continued Monday the Biden administration\u2019s criticism of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis finding that programs in the Build Back Better Act could add &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}