14 Mar 2017 7:53 am
Flashback to February 2015 when then House Budget Committee Chairman, now Secretary of Health And Human Services, Tom Price, was instrumental in choosing Keith Hall to run the CBO.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) issued the following statement today after Dr. Keith Hall was appointed to serve as the next Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO):
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Fast forward to today, Price began trashing the CBO even before they released their numbers on the new healthcare bill.Months later, in two separate Congressional Record statements, Price (who had never hesitated to cite CBO numbers to buttress his own arguments) praised the CBO for its “high standard of professionalism, objectivity, and nonpartisanship” and for its “expertise.”
GOP’s hand-picked economist will soon release an assessment of Trumpcare. They’re now trashing him.On Friday, as the CBO prepares to evaluate the Trumpcare bill he has endorsed, Price barely acknowledged knowing Hall and blamed him and the office for “woefully under-performing” in their assessment of Obamacare seven years ago — five years before he helped put Hall in charge of the office.
“I worked with him in my previous job as chairman of the Budget Office,” he told MSNBC’s Mark Halperin.
Asked what he thinks of Hall, Price dodged the question and replied that CBO “is an organization that does their doggonest to get the numbers right, but, God bless ’em,” they did not correctly predict the number of Americans would get health insurance through exchanges.”