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Ted Cruz: “CBO has been wrong in its scoring over and over and over…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Ted Cruz Discusses Senate Amendments to Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Medicaid Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 05:58

That's still a lot of money. And some House Republicans were even concerned about this too. Yeah. So I'd say two things on that. Number one, historically, CBO has been wrong in its scoring over and over and over again. They underestimate the economic growth from tax cuts in the 2017 Trump tax cuts. CBO wildly underestimated the economic growth that the tax cuts produced. (05:58–06:03)

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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office has frequently been incorrect in its economic projections.

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