Dynamic scoring—an attempt to measure the macroeconomic effects of policy changes before they happen—continues to pop up everywhere, even in negotiations by the erstwhile Joint Select Committee on ...

One of the major unanswered questions regarding President Trump's tax-reform proposal is: How much will it cost? In theory the government has a way to answer that, but surprisingly there's no standard ...

Sarah Ayres explains why dynamic scoring is still a bad idea for calculating the consequences of congressional legislation on the federal budget. The co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit ...

Curtis Dubay, recognized as a leading expert on taxation issues, is a former research fellow in tax and economic policy. Congress could soon ask the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to dynamically ...

Paul Ryan, the chair of the House Budget Committee, is set to make a big move next year. No, I’m not talking about a presidential run, although that’s possible. Instead, he’s expected to take over the ...

As I'm sure you know the incoming Republican majority wants to move the Congressional Budget Office over to using dynamic scoring when testing budgetary measures. There'a a certain amount of, how ...

When Congress considers legislation, nonpartisan agencies provide estimates of the law’s potential economic effects to policymakers, a process known as “scoring.” In recent decades, analysts at the ...

In his testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Kevin Hassett examines the potential benefits of ...

President Trump's 2018 budget proposal details many federal programs he'd like to cut. But his budget figures don't jive with his policies because of something called "dynamic scoring." For example, ...