In the world of federal budgeting, a scorekeeper is someone who keeps track of (or scores) the cost to taxpayers of new legislation and both makes and applies the rules of the budget process.  When there is a consensus that the rules are not working well, there usually is an effort to change them to produce better results.  How the Federal Government budgets for expensive capital projects is an exception.  It was a glaring and growing problem over my career, and it will continue to be unless we change the process and the incentives for decision-makers.  During my last three years at OMB, I spent considerable time developing a proposal to create a new budget mechanism to deal with the problem of funding expensive capital projects within tight discretionary caps.  The proposal is one leg of the Trump Infrastructure Package and is included in the Administration’s 2019 and 2020 Budgets.  The Administration transmitted legislation to implement the proposal on June 12, 2018.