# 119-hr-824: GORAC Act of 2025

119-hr-824, GORAC Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24] (R-TX); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-824
- As of: 2025-12-21
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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-824
- Congress: 119
- Title: GORAC Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-28
- Sponsor: Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24] (R-TX)
- Cosponsors: 6
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Would create mandatory, decade-long audits to identify and consolidate or eliminate duplicative, wasteful, or outdated federal agencies and programs.** The bill sets a timeline and a fast-track path to turn audit recommendations into law while requiring savings be used to reduce the national debt and providing rules for relocating affected employees. - Federal agencies and programs: Each program would be evaluated by the Comptroller General using a non-Federal auditor within 1 year of enactment and then every 10 years. The auditor must recommend consolidating two or more entities that share an essential function and suggest elimination of programs that have completed their purpose or wasted funds. - Federal employees: If positions are eliminated the bill would require agency heads to reasonably relocate affected employees within the same agency or to another federal agency. - Congress and implementation: The Comptroller General must submit implementing legislation and chairs of two oversight committees must introduce it by the 15th calendar day after the report. Floor debate would be limited to 10 hours and no amendments would be allowed.

## Cosponsors (6)

- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] (R-NY), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fallon, Pat [R-TX-4] (R-TX), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gill, Brandon [R-TX-26] (R-TX), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14] (R-TX), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large] (R-GU), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19] (R-FL), 2025-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Regular audits and stronger agency oversight: benefit, high. If enacted, every federal program would be reviewed every 10 years. The Comptroller General would hire a private auditor within 30 days for the first review. The auditor would report within one year of starting. The Comptroller General would send Congress the report within 30 days. Auditors could g…
- Entitlements like Social Security excluded from audits: benefit, high. If enacted, entitlement programs would be left out of these audits. Entitlements are benefits that must pay eligible people or governments without annual appropriations. Military bases and agencies that only run entitlements would also be excluded. This would protect Social Security, Medicare, Medi…
- Faster plan to merge or end agencies: mixed, high. If enacted, auditors would recommend merging programs that do the same job, when feasible. They would also recommend ending programs that finished, failed, became irrelevant, or wasted money in the last 10 years. After the Comptroller General’s report, an implementation bill would be introduced on…

## Related bills

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- 119-hr-1628: 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 119-hr-1502: North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 119-hr-987: Fair Access to Banking Act
- 119-hr-404: Hearing Protection Act
- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-824 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/824)

## Related
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- [119-hr-1628: 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1628)
- [119-hr-1502: North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1502)
- [119-hr-987: Fair Access to Banking Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-987)
- [119-hr-404: Hearing Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-404)
- [119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1422)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-824 (as of 2025-12-21).