Yes Obama's Amnesties Do Increase Deficits

Yesterday I asked White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest to justify White House claims that President Obama's immigration executive actions reduce federal deficits in light of a letter from the Congressional Budget Office showing that they increase on-budget deficits by $8.8 billion.

Earnest then claimed that I was reading the letter wrong, and that the letter actually said that Obama's immigration actions reduced deficits by $8 billion.

I then acknowledged that Earnest was half right. That if you consider the unified budget, in other words if all federal taxes,...