On July 20, the Congressional Budget office updated its original estimate (released June 26) of the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, based on its most recent revisions. This estimate does not include the Cruz Amendment, which CBO has said would take more time to complete:
Repeal-Only Bill
On July 19. CBO released its estimates on an amendment to H.R. 1628 that would repeal the Affordable Care Act outright.
Past Scores
This is the CBO’s fifth review of repeal-and-replace-related legislative drafts. It scored the House-passed version on May 24.
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