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    Why the CBO Scares Donald Trump

    The president and his aides may prefer “alternative facts” to the real thing, but they also have little use for anyone else’s conclusions.
    by David A. Graham Mar 14, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    The Trump administration declared its war against facts early, and with panache, with Press Secretary Sean Spicer striding to a podium the day after the inauguration to lay out a series of patently untrue assertions, and Kellyanne Conway christening them “alternative facts” the following day.

    The White House’s disdain for facts has become such a given that it was quickly invoked to explain the administration’s broadside against the Congressional Budget Office, which began days before CBO had even completed its analysis of the House’s Obamacare replacement plan. New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, for example, tweeted:

    But the attempt toso much as independent conclusions. It represents a different war, or at least a different front, than the war on facts. It’s an assault on independent analysis.

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