CNN's Kaitlin Collins Grills Karoline Leavitt About GOP Senators Who Have Spoken Out Against The Big, Beautiful, Bill

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During Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about support in the Senate for the One, Big, Beautiful bill.

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00:00Caitlin. Two questions for you as well. On the Big Beautiful Bill, you said recently that it is

00:04quote blatantly wrong to say that it adds to the deficit. You essentially said that an estimate

00:08from the Congressional Budget Office and other scorekeepers you believe are wrong. But Republicans

00:13like Ron Johnson and Rand Paul disagree. They are saying that it will add to the deficit. That is

00:17their concern. Is the White House's position that those two Republican senators are quote blatantly

00:22wrong? It is. Those senators, it's not news that they disagree with this president on policy.

00:27And the president has vocally called them out for it and for them not having their facts together.

00:33I would add the Congressional Budget Office has been historically wrong. In fact, they predicted

00:38the Trump tax cuts from the president's first term in 2017. They that their prediction was wrong by

00:44half a trillion dollars. Those tax cuts had more nearly a half trillion dollars more of revenue than

00:50the Congressional Budget Office scored. And I would also point out, I don't think many people know this,

00:54there hasn't been a single staffer in the entire Congressional Budget Office that has contributed

01:00to a Republican since the year 2000. But guess what? There have been many staffers within the

01:06Congressional Budget Office who have contributed to Democrat candidates and politicians every single

01:11cycle since. So unfortunately, this is an institution in our country that has become partisan and political.

01:16And we are very confident in our own economic analyses of this bill. There is $1.6 trillion in savings.

01:23And our Office of Management and Budget Director, Russ Fott, is a fiscal hawk. He is well known in this

01:29city for being a well-respected fiscal hawk. He has tools at his disposal to produce even more savings.

01:35And as you know, the White House will be sending our rescissions package to Capitol Hill today.

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