Official Summaries

Fighting Presidential Budget Waste Act

This bill requires the President and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to consider the Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) annual report on ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal government when preparing the President's annual budget.

Specifically, the President and OMB must consider the information and recommendations contained in the most recent GAO report titled Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 829 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 829

  To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the President to 
consider the Government Accountability Office's annual report on how to 
 improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Government when preparing 
   the President's annual budget submission, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2025

 Mr. Pappas (for himself, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Nunn 
of Iowa, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Case) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the President to 
consider the Government Accountability Office's annual report on how to 
 improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Government when preparing 
   the President's annual budget submission, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fighting Budget Waste Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF GAO REPORT WHEN PREPARING ANNUAL BUDGET 
              SUBMISSION.

    Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(j)(1) When preparing any budget pursuant to subsection (a) for a 
fiscal year, the President and the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall consider information and recommendations contained in 
the most recently published Government Accountability Office report 
titled `Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and 
Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits' (or 
any successor report).
    ``(2) On the date such budget is submitted to Congress, the 
Director shall submit a report to Congress on the Office's findings 
with respect to such information and recommendations.''.
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