Former Biden Administration Economists Launch New Budget Lab

A huge tax fight is looming as a slew of 2017 Republican tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 — and, as Natasha Sarin writes at The Washington Post, the government’s budgetary scorekeepers will play a key role in determining how that fight plays out. “Analysts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Joint Tax Committee and other groups ‘score’ the cost of — and savings from — different policy options. How much money would a tax on the rich bring in? How much would eliminatin