Rick HasenVerified account

Bob Corker struck that deal in the budget committee, and it’s supposed to be a proxy for current policy baseline ($450 billion) and dynamic scoring ($1 trillion)...

Now, to be clear, expecting $1 trillion from dynamic scoring is absurd. And what’s even more absurd is essentially pre-baking a dynamic score for a bill that hadn’t even been written.

Not to mention it’s outrageous to use a current policy baseline two years after Cong specifically separated the permanent extenders from the expiring extenders.

Even more outrageous to use this $450 billion, then write NEW temporary provisions into the bill, and score them as temporary.

It’s all a ridiculous shell game. In fairness to Corker, he said he may not vote for the end product if he thinks it increases deficits (according to who-knows-what standard).