People ‘eager to raise taxes on anybody but themselves,’ says fiscal watchdog

U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) promises the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill will, “both address our perilously changing climate and create new, good jobs, all while strengthening the economy and reinvigorating local communities.” But Maya MacGuineas, the president of the nonprofit Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said politicians are punting on taxes and the promise to bring the bill in on budget.

“What we’re seeing coming out of the…