Congressional Budget Office showdown: GOP tries to shoot the messenger, misses
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is stopped by reporters as he passes by the Senate. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)/ When Congress created the Congressional Budget Office in 1974 to rein in President Nixon’s abuse of power, Steve Bell was a Republican staffer on Capitol Hill involved in the process. Bell predicted his party would try to gut the very office they set up to keep power-hungry presidents in check. “That’s one of those times when I wished I was wrong,” Bell, now a senior adviser at ...
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