Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Congressional Budget Office?

Every few years, Washington rouses itself from its partisan noise and rounds its attention on the Congressional Budget Office, a sleepy, nonpartisan place that quietly wields immense influence over most legislation of any consequence. That is precisely what is happening now with the recently unveiled House Republican plan to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Even before the replacement bill has been fully written and assessed, Republicans and the White House are attacking the CBO's credibility and reliability. Asked about the implications of the forthcoming CBO analysis, White House spokesman Sean Spicer dismissed the agency, “If you're looking to the CBO for accuracy, you're looking in the wrong place.”