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This bill — the Duplication Scoring Act of 2019 — would eliminate duplicative federal government programs and prevent the formation of future duplicative federal government programs.

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Require the administration to achieve $10 billion in savings by consolidating federal programs identified in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual duplication reports within 150 days of this bill’s enactment.
Require GAO to post duplication reports on its website and provide this information to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) going forward.
Ask the president to identify and submit to Congress legislative changes that are necessary to further enable consolidation, elimination, or streamlining of duplicative programs or activities.
Require the CBO to include an assessment of the extent to which a piece of legislation creates new duplication within the government in its legislative cost estimates.

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