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Addressing the Deficit: Updating the Budgetary Implications of Selected GAO Work

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 28, 1996
Report No. OCG-96-5
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Summary:

This report is part of GAO's continuing effort to help Congress identify options to reduce the deficit. It updates GAO's previous work in this area and systematically identifies the budgetary implications of selected program reforms discussed in GAO's work but not yet implemented or enacted. In this year's report, GAO updates 96 of the 120 spending reduction and revenue gain options that appeared in last year's report (GAO/OCG-95-2). Under the Budget Enforcement Act, the spending and revenue options included in this report may be used either to reduce the deficit or to free up funds for other programs. GAO analyzes the following three options: reassess objectives (reconsider whether to terminate or change the services and the programs provided), redefine beneficiaries (reconsider a program's intended population), and improve efficiency (reconsider how a program or a service should be delivered).

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