After weeks of telling the public that the Build Back Better plan would cost zero dollars, the Biden administration didn’t appreciate the rude awakening that the Congressional Budget Office brought, with a White House spokesman even going so far as to belittle the CBO’s analysts for not playing along.

Though the CBO’s score fails to account for numerous timing gimmicks, it shows that BBB would add $367 billion to the national debt. Taxpayers should ignore the White House’s protestations and take note that even a bill full of every budget trick in the book couldn’t pass muster.