Identifying and Eliminating Wasteful Programs Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2135.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2135, Identifying and Eliminating Wasteful Programs Act” on May 17, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on February 2, 2022”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 17, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58120

  CBO publication date

  May 17, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2135, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/2135

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  607835fd6a57c4e4518be5456cc6fefaf1a605689f44d590a5139030847e16a2

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 117-216 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on December 5, 2022.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 5, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/117/SRPT/216

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2135, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/2135

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  607835fd6a57c4e4518be5456cc6fefaf1a605689f44d590a5139030847e16a2

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From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 2135, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.