On Sunday, senior Trump administration officials attacked the CBO’s credibility and downplayed the upcoming report.
“We will see what the score is. In fact in the past, the CBO score has really been meaningless,” Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council, told “Fox News Sunday.”
Republicans have sharply criticized the CBO for its past estimates that 22 million people would buy insurance through Obamacare’s government-run exchanges by 2016, when that number only came to about 10.4 million, according to Department of Health and Human Services data.
HHS Secretary Tom Price pledged on “Meet the Press” that “nobody will be worse off financially” under the Republican plan.
Still, the plan faces an uphill battle winning support in the Republican-controlled Congress. In the face of unified opposition from Democrats, Republicans can only afford to lose 21 votes in the House and two votes in the Senate.
Several conservative Republicans in the House said the plan was too similar to the Obamacare provisions it would replace, while some Republicans are concerned it will not lead to more affordable healthcare coverage.