Don't Gut Congressional Budget Office

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has come under heavy criticism in recent weeks from many Republicans. They complain of inaccuracies in CBO's analyses of legislation, most recently in the agency's scores of the various proposed Affordable Care Act repeal-and-replace bills. Condemnation of the agency has grown so loud that all eight former CBO directors, from both sides of the aisle, felt it necessary to pen an unprecedented letter to congressional leaders condemning the attacks. The anti-CBO bluster took a far more ominous turn Monday when Freedom Caucus chair Representative Mark Meadows (R., N.C ...