As an OMB scorekeeper from 1984-2019, I worked to apply the rules consistently and fairly, and to improve the rules where they were not working appropriately. I’m not interested in scoring gimmicks. I fought off far too many of them during my 35 year career. With a $1 trillion gap in 2020 between Federal commitments and our willingness to pay for them, we don’t need scoring gimmicks that hide costs.