内容摘要：to a U.S. proposal that special envoy Steve Witkoff has called “totally unacceptable.”

to a U.S. proposal that special envoy Steve Witkoff has called “totally unacceptable.”

“The CBO is notorious for getting things WRONG,” he said in a Facebook post.In April 2018, CBO said that tax receipts would total $27 trillion from fiscal years 2018 to 2024.

Receipts came in about $1.5 trillion higher than the CBO projected. Republicans have seized on that discrepancy.But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Some of the criticism of the CBO ignores the context of a global pandemic as the federal government rushed to prop the economy up with massive spending bills under bothIn a blog post last December, Swagel pointed out three reasons for the higher revenues: The primary reason was the burst of inflation that began in March 2021 as the country was recovering from COVID. That burst of inflation, he said, led to about $900 billion more in revenue.

There was also an increase in economic activity in “the later years of the period” adding $700 billion. Also, new tariffs added about $250 billion, with other legislation partially offsetting those three factors.The CBO’s projection for the Republican bill is similar to some outside groups estimates.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the bill would add nearly $3 trillion to the debt through 2034 when including interest payments. That number rises to $5 trillion if some of the temporary provisions, such as no tax on tips and overtime, are made permanent.

The nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model, which conducts economic analysis of public policy issues, estimated the House-passed bill increases deficits by $2.8 trillion over 10 years. That number rises to $3.2 when using dynamic scoring to measure the bill’s macroeconomic effects.GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations human rights office expressed concerns on Wednesday about the discovery of dozens of bodies, some charred and buried and others in hospital refrigerators, in an area of Libya’s capital

whose leader was killed last month.U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was shocked by revelations that gross rights violations were uncovered at detention facilities in Tripoli run by

, or SSA, an armed group whose commander Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli, was killed in militia fighting in mid-May.The rights office said it later received information on the excavation of 10 charred bodies at the SSA headquarters in the Abu Salim neighborhood and another 67 bodies discovered in refrigerators in the Abu Salim and Al Khadra hospitals. It also cited reports of a burial site at the Tripoli Zoo that was run by the SSA.