Pencil pushers at the Congressional Budget Office have crunched the numbers and found that far right Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s plan to “offset” a $14 billion aid bill to Israel with cuts to IRS funding would actually increase the federal budget deficit by $12.5 billion over the next decade due to decreased revenue, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports on a “no shit” projection.
While this was pretty obvious, it’s not what the MAGA assholes needed politically while trying to create a poison pill for the Democrats wanting to support Israel (and Ukraine) cleanly.