evidence: Is the Build Back Better Bill is fully paid for? It seems to be a never-ending dispute, doesn’t it? On November 18, the Congressional Budget Office released its cost estimate for the Build Back Better Act, according to which the bill would spend $1.7 trillion over the years 2022 to 2031 and increase the budget deficit by $367 billion during that timeframe. At the same time, the Biden administration contended that the CBO was too conservative in its calculations of new revenue and that increased IRS tax enforcement would fully pay for the bill’s spending. [...] And, at the behest of Republicans in Congress, last Friday the CBO released a new analysis of the bill calculating the effect of the spending plan on the deficit if, at the time when provisions would otherwise expire, Congress were to extend them for the remainder of the 10 year period. This analysis found that a 10-year "permanent Build Back Better" would increase budget deficits by $2.75 trillion.