If this report from the New York Times is correct, the bromance between Jim DeMint and Senator Macro Rubio may be at an end.
DeMint is turning the scaremongering up to 11 on immigration reform and he’s planning to release his own report on the costs because, according to him, the CBO can’t be trusted.
Estimates by the Congressional Budget Office indicating immigration reform will actually help drive economic growth, DeMint said, are moot since the CBO is just “puppets of the Congress and the assumptions they put in the bill.” The Heritage Foundation, he added, “is the only organization that has done an analysis on the cost,” and the figure it will release this week is “much more than” the $2.6 trillion estimate the group came up with in 2007.
DeMint’s report may be ignored in the Senate, but in the House it will be heralded as the gospel.