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Wash. Times Falsely Claimed CBO “Estimated That the Full Cost Of” Recovery Bill “Will Reach $3.2 Trillion By 2019”

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A February 17 Washington Times editorialfalsely claimed that “[t]he nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the full cost of [the economic recovery] bill, including its $348 billion debt service and the out-year financing, will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019.” In fact, more than half of that $3.2 trillion figure comes from the cost of permanently extending more than 20 provisions in the recovery bill, which the bill does not do. CBO…

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