White House Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought disputed the Congressional Budget Office's assessment that the "Big, Beautiful" budget reconciliation package will not reduce spending.

In an interview, Phill Swagel defended the CBO’s forecasting record as Republicans blast the fiscal scorekeeping agency’s ...

In his eulogy for Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s Mark Antony famously—and, of course, disingenuously—claims that he came “to ...

As a dejected Brad Smith walked off Horlick Field the evening of Oct. 12, 1979, the coach said about all that needs to be said about Phil Dobbs. Smith’s Horlick High School football team just ...

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Its director, Phillip Swagel, an alumnus of the George W. Bush administration, began the job during Republican control of the Senate in 2019, and was re-appointed during Democratic control of the ...

Check your internet connection or browser settings. “The changes would not be evenly distributed among households,” said Phillip Swagel, director of the CBO. “The agency estimates that ...

CBO Director Phillip Swagel is a Republican appointee who’s served in the role since 2019, but that hasn’t prevented conservative accusations of the agency embracing a left-leaning tilt.

mainly because of reductions in… taxes they owe,” CBO director Phillip Swagel wrote in a letter to Democrats. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), ...