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The White House is disputing estimates from the Congressional Budget Office that say the president's big tax and spending cuts bill will add trillions of dollars to the national deficit.
As NPR's Tamara Keith reports,
this comes as billionaire Elon Musk is posting on social media the bill should be killed.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would add $2.4 trillion to the nation's deficit over the next decade.
But White House Budget Director Russell Vogt,
in a call with reporters, disputed the CBO's calculation.
It will improve the deficit.
It will help us deal with debt.
It is historic levels of mandatory savings.
the fact that the congressional budget office doesn't agree is not particularly new.
As for Musk,
who has called for members of Congress to be voted out of office if they support the bill,
Vote said he isn't worried about opposing views from the outside.