… and the directors of CBO, all of them, have always known that when their analysis throws cold water on private proposals, people who support those proposals will go back. It is the fact that CBO has accumulated credibility about its half century that makes people feel that they must come with reasons why CBO numbers should not be trusted.
There are two aspects of current attacks against CBO, however, which are relatively unusual and very unfortunate. The first is the suggestion that CBO staff is a political biased, and the evidence comes from the fact that some CBO staff, in the last 25 years, donated Democratic candidates or left -wing organizations. The importance of this statement was completely discredited by the Washington Post Fact Checker. Moreoover, there are formal and informal substantial controls for political bias prevention by influencing CBO analysis. In fact, the statute established by CBO explicitly establishes that CBO personnel must be hired “without taking into account political affiliation”, and the culture established by Alice Rivlin constantly reinforces its non -partisan ethics. And it is important to take into account the differentiation between not being non -partisan and “bipartisan”; The first means that it is not allowing political considerations to influence their work, while the second implies seeking cooperation between two political parties. It is an insult to these workers and committed professionals to suggest that they are somehow trying to make policies of a particular party, or a particular president, more difficult to achieve due to some political bias.
The second is that more and more of these criticisms of CBO do not come from the Executive Power, but from the interior of the Congress. These include both factual misrepresentations (as the statement that CBO underestimated the revenue effects of Trump’s tax cuts 2017, when differentiation was completely related to the inflation of the Covid era that everyone did not anticipate) and attacks. Or private concern is the general lack of support shown by the Budget Committees, which in the past have generally increased to the defense of CBO against the criticisms of the executive branch. What makes Congress’s lack of support so unfortunate is the potential effect it could have on the budget separation of powers. Pulling the CBO weakens the congestion. Only a partisan republican that the aspects of CBO analysis that a Republican president also extinguished by a Democratic president. When political winds change, they will need the credibility of the CBO to allow Congress to challenge future policies.
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