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Lawmakers weigh in on CBO, farm bill score

Federal lawmakers have varying opinions on how the Congressional Budget Office scored the House farm bill.

Minnesota Democrat Angie Craig serves on the House Ag Committee and says the CBO projects an increase to mandatory spending by $33 billion over ten years.

“So as long as it’s scoring as a deficit increase, not even Republicans are going to vote for their own farm bill.”

Congress created the Congressional Budget Office in 1974 to operate as a non-partisan, unaffiliated resource for objective analysis on budget and economic matters.

But House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, a Republican from Minnesota, tells Brownfield he doesn’t have much faith in the CBO.

“I hate to tell you this but the CBO is corrupted, they are playing politics.”

Emmer says the CBO offers an opinion, but it’s Congress that makes the law.

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