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Ted Cruz: “CBO wildly underestimated the economic growth that the [2017…”

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Number one, historically CBO has been wrong and it's 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 [2017 Trump] tax cuts produced. And so I am consistently skeptical of CBO's projections because they're proved wrong over and over and over again. But what I'll say secondly is, listen, I agree we need to cut more spending. (14:06–14:12)

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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office underestimated the economic growth from the 2017 Trump tax cuts.

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