Reply to "comment on 'Quasielastic lepton scattering and back-to-back nucleons in the short-time approximation' "

We briefly review the concept of scaling and how it occurs in quasielastic electron and neutrino scattering from nuclei, and then the particular approach to scaling in the short-time approximation. We show that, whereas two-nucleon currents do significantly enhance the transverse electromagnetic response, they do not spoil scaling, but, in fact, enhance it. We provide scaling results obtained in the short-time approximation that verify this claim. The enhanced scaling, although obtained empirically, is not "accidental"- as claimed in [O. Benhar, Phys. Rev. C 105, 049801 (2022)10.1103/PhysRevC.105.049801] - but rather reflects quasielastic kinematics and the dominant role played by pion-exchange interactions and currents in the quasielastic regime.