Legislation in Congress has lived and died by budget scores handed out by the Congressional Budget Office. While the CBO is treated as sacrosanct, policymakers often put a thumb on the CBO scale, gaming the system and scoring rules to produce budget scores that conceal the true cost of legislative proposals. The Taxpayers Budget Office is dedicated to pulling back the curtain on how CBO scores work, examining what legislation may truly cost without the gimmicks that legislators use to game the CBO, and advocating for transparency and reform so that taxpayers everywhere can better understand federal budgeting processes.