Source: The White House’s disingenuous claim about CBO’s political leanings – The Washington Post
We checked the background of each of the 16 people who made contributions since 2015. Many have moved on to other jobs, retired or even died. Most held relatively low-level positions, unlikely to be involved in a major budget analysis.
Moreover, only three people — two editors and an agricultural analyst — made donations in the 2024 cycle. The biggest donation was for Vice President Kamala Harris ($100), but the rest were donations under $30 to congressional candidates or to Harris ($25).
Yet Leavitt stood before the White House press corps and declared that “many staffers” had donated to Democrats and decried that this showed that CBO had become “partisan and political.”
She failed to mention that the CBO director, Phillip Swagel, served in the George W. Bush administration. Campaign records show he donated $1,000 to a Republican candidate for governor in 2014.
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