By Bo Erickson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ten million more Americans will be uninsured in the next decade due to changes in President Donald Trump’s tax and spend law, according to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office.
The nonpartisan CBO analysis comes after the legislation became law in July and is an update from a previous analysis that estimated almost 11 million Americans would be uninsured from previous versions of the legislation.
The tax and spending law was passed with only Republican votes, as Democrats said the bill was a giveaway to the rich at the expense of low-income Americans. To pay for extending tax cuts passed under Trump’s first term and some new temporary tax cuts and other spending, the law has enacted some restrictions and requirements to access the low-incom