Three Huge Questions Posed by the GAO/CBO Budget Fight That House GOPers Must Confront

You won’t be reading about it in the mainstream media, because how legislative branch agencies like the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are funded isn’t a first or even-second order question in the context of a $37 trillion national debt and continuing annual deficits.

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But maybe the fact the issues to be discussed in the following analysis aren’t a top priority says something crucially important about why the federal government, thanks to both Democratic and Republican congressional majorities and Oval Office occupants since LBJ, is so far in debt.

Here’s the political and economic context in which that possibility becomes clear: The House version of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act of 2026 chops the GAO’s budget by 48

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