evidence: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Thursday released its full cost estimate of the Build Back Better Act, House Democrats’ social spending package, hours before lawmakers were expected to vote on the bill. The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper said that the massive bill put forward to advance President Biden’s agenda would increase the deficit by $367 billion over 10 years. [...] "The combination of CBO’s scores over the last week, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates, and Treasury analysis, make it clear that Build Back Better is fully paid for, and in fact will reduce our nation’s debt over time by generating more than $2 trillion through reforms that ask the wealthiest Americans and large corporations to pay their fair share," she said.