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The bill forces OMB to address GAO recommendations and report to Congress—potentially improving coordination, transparency, and federal savings—but it increases OMB workload and could prompt program cuts or produce limited savings if implemented perfunctorily.
Taxpayers: OMB must address GAO recommendations in budget submissions, which could identify duplicated spending and generate substantial federal savings.
Federal agencies and federal employees: Requiring consideration of GAO recommendations should encourage better coordination and reduce fragmented or overlapping programs across agencies.
Congress and the public: OMB must submit a findings report to Congress with the budget, increasing transparency about how GAO recommendations were addressed and improving legislative oversight.
Communities and program participants: Highlighting duplication could lead to proposals to cut or reorganize existing programs that people and local governments rely on.
OMB and the Executive branch: The new reporting and analytic requirements will increase OMB workload and could slow budget preparation or divert staff time from other priorities.
Taxpayers and the public: If OMB treats the requirement perfunctorily and merely notes GAO recommendations without substantive action, the added reporting may produce little real savings.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the President and OMB to consider GAO's latest report on duplication/overlap when preparing the annual budget and to send Congress OMB’s findings with the budget.
Introduced January 31, 2025 by Chris Pappas · Last progress January 31, 2025
Requires the President and the OMB Director to review and consider the most recent GAO report on reducing fragmentation, overlap, and duplication when preparing the annual federal budget, and to submit to Congress a report on OMB’s findings about those GAO recommendations on the date the budget is transmitted. Also establishes an official short title for the Act.