WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s budget bill in Congress would unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending but also could spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over a decade and leave about 10.9 million people without health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO's analysis raises the political stakes for the GOP's signature domestic priority.
Republican leaders in Congress, determined to muscle the sweeping package forward, had little to say after the analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan CBO . Republican senators were heading for an afternoon meeting with Trump at the White House.
But Democrats trying to halt the march of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act piled on with opposition.
“In the words of Elon Musk, this bill is a ‘disgusting abomi