Fighting Budget Waste Act
The Fighting Budget Waste Act requires the President and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to consider the most recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on reducing government waste when preparing the annual federal budget. Specifically, it mandates review of the GAO's findings about cutting fragmentation, duplication, and overlap in federal programs - such as the report titled *Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits* - to identify potential savings. The OMB must also submit a separate report to Congress detailing how it incorporated the GAO's recommendations into the budget submission. This law aims to make the budget process more transparent by formally integrating the GAO's waste-reduction analysis into federal fiscal planning.
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