13 Times Donald Trump Quoted the CBO to Attack President Barack Obama

Republicans Cherry Pick the Facts They Like

Republicans and the Trump administration have been attacking the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan agency that for more than four decades has delivered the best information possible on the impact of legislation Congress is considering. The Office is headed by a Republican, hand-picked by Republicans, including then-Speaker John Boehner, and then Chair of the House Budget Committee, now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price – the person most-responsible for creating TrumpCare.

Dr. Price today said the “CBO has it wrong.”

Yet here’s Price praising Keith Hall, the man he picked to head the CBO, in 2015:

Media Matters for America’s Andrew Lawrence collected and posted all these tweets from Dr. Price quoting the CBO as an expert source:

And here’s Donald Trump, now President Trump, 13 times using the CBO as a reliable data source with which to pummel President Barack Obama.  

So, sorry, Republicans, you don’t get to cherry pick the facts you like and denounce the ones you don’t.