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Ted Cruz: “Historically CBO has been wrong and it's scoring over and…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 13:55

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 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 tax cuts produced. (13:55–14:01)

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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office has a history of inaccurate budget scoring.

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