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The bill improves oversight and reduces duplicative federal spending by adding GAO review and clearer implementation timing, but it risks slowing the legislative process, increasing committee workload, and creating unpredictability about when changes take effect.
Taxpayers: GAO review of proposed new programs will identify duplicative or wasteful efforts before enactment, helping avoid unnecessary federal spending.
Members of Congress, committees, and budget analysts: GAO duplication findings (available to CBO as supplements) give lawmakers fuller oversight and budgetary context, supporting better legislative drafting and reduced program fragmentation.
Federal employees and taxpayers: Requiring OMB to refresh public financial transparency information before the amendment takes effect—and providing a clear fallback effective date—helps ensure implementation follows an information update and avoids indefinite delay.
Federal budget process and taxpayers: Requiring GAO review before committees act could delay committee consideration and publication of CBO cost estimates, slowing legislative timelines and timely budgeting.
Congressional committees: Reviewing GAO findings and incorporating supplements will add administrative workload and staffing burdens, increasing friction in the legislative process.
Sponsors of small or time-sensitive bills and taxpayers: If CBO issues cost estimates before GAO input arrives, smaller or fast-moving measures may receive less thorough cost presentations, reducing transparency for stakeholders.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires GAO to flag reported bills that would create programs/offices duplicative of prior GAO-identified federal efforts and share findings with CBO and the reporting committee.
Official title: Require the Comptroller General of the United States to analyze certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives.
Introduced September 8, 2025 by Rand Paul · Last progress September 8, 2025
Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review bills and joint resolutions reported by congressional committees for provisions that would create new programs, offices, or initiatives that duplicate or overlap with previously identified federal efforts. GAO must, when practicable, identify the new entity, cite the prior GAO duplication/overlap report, and send that information to the reporting committee and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); CBO may append the GAO findings to its cost estimates. The new duty is added to existing GAO authorities and becomes effective on the earlier of two trigger dates: 60 days after OMB next updates an online listing required by law, or the date a new Congress begins after one year from enactment. The Act only creates this reporting requirement and contains no direct funding or program authorizations.