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: Highlights that fraud and improper payments impose real costs on households and cites an estimated average hit of about $1,000 to $3,000 per tax filer each year.
• Federal agencies: Calls for agencies to verify award recipient eligibility and payment accuracy before issuing funds and points to roughly $186 billion in estimated improper payments reported for fiscal year 2025.
• State agencies and providers: Calls out state program vulnerabilities and cites enforcement actions exposing hundreds of millions to billions in improper payments, including about $600 million in suspected hospice fraud and a $270 million Medicaid guilty plea.

*Would push for reforms aimed at reducing improper payments and saving federal dollars, improving the federal ledger.*