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The FGA report describes a troubling pattern — a “revolving door” pipeline that funnels analysts from progressive think tanks and Democrat congressional offices directly into the CBO. These individuals then turn around and produce “neutral” assessments on legislation that aligns suspiciously with their former employers’ political goals.
In recent weeks, the CBO has come under intense scrutiny for its questionable evaluation of the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which is aimed at advancing former President Donald Trump’s America First agenda through the budget reconciliation process. The CBO’s projection? The bill would reportedly jack up the federal deficit by a staggering $2.4 trillion and strip health coverage from nearly 11 million people due to Medicaid reforms.
That bombshell estimate set off alarm bells — but not for the reasons you’d expect.
Conservatives and policy analysts aren’t buying it. In fact, the very organization that produced the bombshell report, the FGA, believes those numbers are wildly off-base and intentionally misleading. Independent projections suggest the bill would reduce the deficit by $1.4 trillion, a stark contrast to the CBO’s doom-and-gloom scenario.
FGA experts are urging lawmakers not to place blind trust in the CBO’s findings, especially when it comes to reforms of bloated government entitlement programs.
“CBO makes scary claims about how many people will lose Medicaid, but they leave out the truth: The vast majority of those counted are either enrolled in multiple states, already ineligible, have other health coverage, are illegal aliens, are able-bodied adults who can work but choose not to, or aren’t even enrolled in the program,” Dublois explained.
These revelations paint a disturbing picture of an agency that is supposed to inform Congress with neutral, evidence-based analysis — not push a partisan narrative. If anything, the CBO appears to have become just another cog in the Democrat machine, dressed up in the cloak of objectivity.
“Here’s the bottom line: CBO is biased, and its numbers consistently miss the mark by embarrassing margins. Congress should be able to rely on its service agency to produce quality data. Instead, CBO has become another captive institution wrapped in non-partisan clothing,” Dublois concluded.
With the 2024 election cycle heating up and major legislative fights looming, conservatives in Congress are rightfully demanding transparency and accountability from the CBO. The American people deserve honest data — not spin disguised as science.
