Condemning actors seeking to defraud the United States Government, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that governmentwide fraud and improper payment prevention reforms will meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of the United States, and that Federal program eligibility should be verified before payment.

• Families and taxpayers: The text says taxpayers shoulder these losses and cites annual fraud estimates of $233 billion to $521 billion, with the average tax filer bearing about $1,000 to $3,000 per year.
• Program beneficiaries: The resolution says fraud and improper payments delay or block services for eligible people and points to pandemic-era spending expansions of about $4.6 trillion as a major source of vulnerability.
• State, local, and providers: It highlights weak state controls and ongoing probes in Minnesota and California, and documents rapid enforcement steps that suspended nearly 450 hospice and home health providers amid $600 million in estimated fraud.

*Frames federal improper payments and fraud as placing significant strain on the federal ledger, citing $186 billion in estimated improper payments in FY2025 and large annual fraud estimates.*