Mulvaney discredits CBO scoring of Obamacare replacement bill

Published March 12, 2017 1:38pm ET



White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday warned that the Congressional Budget Office’s upcoming score of the House GOP’s replacement bill for Obamacare will not rate the new legislation on the most important parts of the bill.

“We continue to think, and have for a long time, that the CBO is scoring the wrong thing. They’re scoring Obamacare as it exists today, not tomorrow,” Mulvaney told ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos, a day ahead of the CBO’s expected announcement.

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