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Russell Vought: “I'm saying that all the watchdogs, including the…”

Featuring: Russell Vought, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget | National

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Elon Musk disagrees. Virtually everyone on this side of the aisle. So you're saying everyone is wrong, but you are the right one, that this does not increase the debt? I'm saying that all the watchdogs, including the Congressional Budget Office, use a skewed vision view of what the baseline is. They were less a few percent wrong last time on your tax bill and they predicted it almost dead on. So you're saying this time there's significant changes and they don't know what's going on and only you do. (04:34–04:42)

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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office and other watchdogs use a skewed baseline in their analyses.

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