Senate Democrats Seek to Squash GOP’s Tax Bill Scoring Plan (1)

Senate Democratic staff met with the chamber’s referee Monday in a bid to stop Republicans from using a controversial scoring method on their upcoming tax bill, according to a Senate source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The meeting between staff for the Senate Budget Committee and Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough gives Democrats a rare opening to halt Republicans’ plans to score an extension of the expiring parts of the 2017 tax law as a continuation of “current policy” rather than “current law.”

Doing so would essentially zero out the estimated $4.6 trillion deficit impact of the extension, which could ...