Jeff Merkley actually said...

"The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated $1 trillion of cost added to the deficit. Penn Wharton estimated $1.4 trillion."

"But my point is that initial analysis, be it $1.4 trillion or $1.8 trillion, to get to that analysis CBO had to look at each individual tax provision and what it would cost."

"I had difficulty getting the numbers on the individual tax provisions, what they would have costed, to better understand individual policies."

"I do think it is an important point to make because what we have seen for a pattern that has increased our debt vastly has been Republican leadership has repeatedly taken us deep into the red, Democra..."