Healthcare Finance News March 11, 2025
CBO gives projections to House committee amid Johnson’s CR stop-gap measure to avoid a government shutdown.
House Republicans’ previously proposed budget looked at $880 billion in spending cuts from programs overseen by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Committee oversight includes Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicare. Ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., and Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., ranking member for the Committee on the Budget, had asked the Congressional Budget Office for projections on mandatory spending over the next nine years for programs, excluding Medicare, that are the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
The Congressional Budget Office answered in a March 5 letter.
CBO’s baseline budget projections show mandatory outlays for...
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