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Article snippet: The House is slated to vote this week on two GOP proposals to cut the Congressional Budget Office’s funding and eliminate its budget analysis division. The two measures will likely be considered on Wednesday as amendments to a government spending package on the House floor this week. Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have been critical of the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper amid its repeated estimates that their efforts to repeal and replace the healthcare law would result in tens of millions more people without insurance. The House Rules Committee, which is controlled by the majority party leadership, decided late Tuesday night to allow the amendments to get consideration on the floor. Both amendments are authored by members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. One amendment offered by Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) would cut funding for the CBO by $25 million, out of its total $48.5 million appropriation. The other, submitted by Reps. MORE (R-Va.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Perry, would eliminate the CBO’s Budget Analysis Division and transfer its duties to the director’s office. The Budget Analysis Division estimates the impact of legislation on the federal budget and produces baseline projections of federal spending. A third amendment submitted by Perry, Jordan and Meadows did not get the green light from the Rules Committee to secure a floor vote. That amendment would have also abolished the Budget Analysis division. It... Link to the full article to read more