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

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Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Res. 1335 to condemn the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

According to the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Government loses between $233 and $521 billion annually to fraud. Think of that, $233 billion to $521 billion annually to fraud.

That is up to $3,250 lost to fraud per taxpayer each year. That is insulting to the American people. Americans work hard for their money, and wasting Americans' paychecks to fraud is just unacceptable.

I strongly support Vice President Vance's work leading the task force to eliminate fraud. The task force has already identified and halted billions of dollars of waste to fraudulent healthcare services and government contracts.

As a Member of Congress, we are entrusted to be stewards of taxpayer dollars. I look forward to finding ways to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse on behalf of the American taxpayers.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his hard work. This is an important issue that we must figure out in order to eliminate this waste that the American taxpayers expect us to find, so we make sure every dollar is being used wisely at the Federal Government level.

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