The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the tax piece of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a core component of his agenda, would add to deficits after 2034, the end of the 10-year budget window, and could therefore violate the Senate’s Byrd Rule.

Responding in a letter to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, CBO Director Phillip Swagel, said the congressional scoring agency “estimates that title VII,” the Finance Committee’s portion of the bill, “increases the deficits in years after 2034."

Democrats will argue that this is a violation of the........

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