The Congressional Budget Office is set to release its score on the Senate health care plan Monday afternoon.
The cost estimate, completed by the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation, will be published on the CBO’s website when it’s available.
CBO To Release Estimate For Senate’s Obamacare Repeal Monday Afternoon
This should be epic in its totality of GOP cruelty…
Keep smiling, Yertle.
And Republicans will either (1) Deny the validity and pertinence of the numbers, or (2) Question CBO’s credibility, or (3) Some illogical combination of the two.
Whatever, I anticipate McConnell will brush off the numbers and proceed to vote in a few days, right after tossing a few placatory crumbs at the handful of “wavering” “moderate” Senators.
I expect McConnell will pass the bill, after allowing two defections, with a vote from Pence. Then the House will probably vote on and pass the Senate bill soon thereafter. And Trump will, with very-poor-taste bluster, sign the bill, perhaps on the 4th with fireworks going off to celebrate the new American “freedom” from healthcare.
Ah, but there’s worse to come! Dismantling of Medicare and Social Security are only a few years away.