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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/21/16011438/voxcare-cbo-director-letter

Top Republican legislators have spent months now attacking the Congressional Budget Office. House Speaker Paul Ryan derided the agency's Obamacare numbers as "bogus," speaking to reporters at an event in Massachusetts Thursday.

The CBO directors are fighting back. All eight signed on to a letter Friday to raise a "strong objection to recent attacks on the integrity and professionalism of the agency."

The letter continues:

Relying on CBO’s estimates in the legislative process has served the Congress  —  and the American people  —  very well during the past four decades. As the House and Senate consider potential policy changes this year and in the years ahead, we urge you to maintain and respect the Congress’s decades-long reliance on CBO’s estimates in developing and scoring bills.

This is the first time, I'm told, that all eight former directors have signed on to a joint letter. The group includes those appointed by Republicans and Democrats. The former directors have kicked around the idea of a letter for the past month or so, as they watched the attacks mount from the sidelines. They made a decision to write this letter about a week ago.

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