A new preliminary estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that measured the impact of blocking Medicaid dollars from funding child sex-change procedures is causing Republicans to cast doubt on the CBO score.
A preliminary estimate from the CBO obtained by The Daily Signal claims the savings from prohibiting Medicaid funds for those gender-transition procedures amount to only half of what Republicans previously expected. Republicans previously anticipated that prohibiting Medicaid funds for gender-transition procedures on minors would save taxpayers $1.4 billion over 10 years in the House’s budget reconciliation bill, but the CBO’s preliminary estimate expects the provision would save only $700 million.
The CBO’s job is to analyze different pieces of legislation and provide Congress with a score that assesses how the proposal will impact federal spending,…
