GORAC Act of 2025

This bill would require regular outside reviews of every federal program to find waste, overlap, and outdated work. The first full review must happen within one year of the law taking effect, and then every 10 years after that. An independent auditor, hired through the Government Accountability Office, would suggest merging programs that do the same thing and shutting down programs that wasted money, finished their job, became irrelevant, or failed to meet their goals. Congress would then get a single package of changes to vote on, without amendments, to carry out those recommendations. Any savings must go to pay down the national debt, and agencies must try to place affected workers in other federal jobs.

Key points:

• Who is affected: Federal agencies and programs; federal employees; taxpayers .
• What changes: Outside audits to identify overlap and waste; proposals to merge or end programs; a single up-or-down vote in Congress; savings go to reduce the debt; efforts to relocate impacted employees .
• When: Auditor hired within 30 days of enactment; first review within one year; reviews repeat every 10 years; auditor reports within one year of starting; GAO sends recommendations and draft legislation to Congress within 30 days after receiving the auditor’s report.