On 12/3/2021, Fox News Peter Doccy asked, “The Build Back Better’s price tag is being described as “incomprehensible” by Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, and Lindsey Graham says that he’s — he has heard from the CBO that they’re going to do an alternative cost estimate and that it’s going to cost more and add more to the debt. So, is there any thought around here to maybe waiting for Build Back Better until a month that you don’t have this big miss in the jobs report?”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied, “In terms of the report of a new CBO, that is not exactly how it works. There has been and let me just start with the irony here that — there’s an irony that a number of Republicans who forced an unpopular tax giveaway to the rich… I can’t get into the psyche of why. I would suggest that it might be — have something to do with their opposition to raising taxes on corporation. That seems to get under their skin a little bit… CBO does not have — does not have a great deal of experience scoring components like the IRS tax
savings. That’s something that the former head of the CBO has also spoken to in the past and that there are estimates about those cost savings that lead to not only our assessments of the cost and savings from the package, but the assessments by many economists.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that she did not have “any updates” whether China’s President Xi is helping the Biden administration and American intelligence agencies track down the origins of COVID-19. Asked then by Doocy whether Biden’s message “is clear to somebody who has a Zoom meeting with the president that that’s what he means if that’s not what he says,” Psaki claimed that America’s “national security officials have conveyed very clearly” and that she does not “think it’s a secret” that America is looking into the origins.
Doocy asked Friday whether Xi “has helped” and “been transparent.” Psaki responded, saying the Biden administration would appreciate support from Xi and China in discovering the origins of COVID-19, but that she does not “have any updates on the participation or willingness of the Chinese to add and provide additional data.”