Taxpayers for Common Sense also criticized the Republican maneuver on assessing the bill’s impact on the deficit in a July 1 statement. “Reconciliation was supposed to be Congress’s tool for fiscal discipline. Instead, senators are using ‘current policy’ scoring — a fancy term for pretending that temporary tax cuts are permanent fixtures — to hide trillions in costs from the American people. It’s the legislative equivalent of cooking the books,” the nonpartisan watchdog group said.