House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawmakers narrowly approved last month.

Powerful skeptics remain. A group of six Nobel Prize-winning economists said the bill will "weaken key safety-net programs while greatly lifting the federal debt," said CBS News. That will be bad for Americans, said the economists: Growing the federal debt "will put noticeable upward pressure on both inflation and interest rates in coming years."