“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer said. Spicer knocked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) before the price tag on the repeal bill has even come out. “The irony of the score is that the CBO was way off the last time,” Spicer said at Wednesday’s briefing. Spicer said the idea that CBO is an “authority” here is a little “far-fetched.”CBO was closer to the mark by some other measures. The office in 2009 estimated that the average premium for the second-lowest ‘silver’ plan under ObamaCare would be $5,200 in 2016.

Source: Fox News March 08, 2017 22:24 UTC