# ICYMI: Just the News: “The Year-End Tax Fight Could Be Shaped by a ‘Nonpartisan’ Yale Lab Founded by Ex-Biden Officials”

Published: 2026-10-29

Just the News reports that Democrats may again lean on the Yale Budget Lab’s numbers for the year-end tax fight, even though the Lab was founded by three former Biden economists.

[Just the News](https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/year-end-tax-fight-could-be-shaped-nonpartisan-yale-lab-founded-ex-biden) reports that Democrats may again lean on the Yale Budget Lab's numbers for the coming year-end tax fight, even though the Lab was founded by three former Biden economists.
 Excerpt here:
  "When Senate Democrats rolled out a bill in April to pour about $83 billion more into IRS enforcement, their estimates for how much the bill would raise came from a Yale research shop founded by three former Biden administration economists presenting itself as nonpartisan. ...
 TBL [The Budget Lab at Yale] describes itself as 'a non-partisan policy research center dedicated to providing in-depth analysis of federal policy proposals for the American economy,' but its analyses, staff and funding largely skew to the political left. ...
 TBL was launched in April 2024 at Yale Law School by former Biden administration economists Natasha Sarin, who served as counselor to then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen; Danny Yagan, formerly the chief economist at the White House Office of Management and Budget; and Martha Gimbel, a former senior adviser for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. In June, the Washington Free Beacon [reported](https://freebeacon.com/democrats/yales-nonpartisan-budget-lab-was-founded-by-biden-officials-and-its-staff-has-given-more-than-100k-to-dems/) that TBL staff and board members donated $102,675 to liberal candidates or causes and none to Republicans or conservative causes."
 
 Read the full article [here](https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/year-end-tax-fight-could-be-shaped-nonpartisan-yale-lab-founded-ex-biden).
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