supporting efforts to strengthen safeguards, close loopholes, and ensure taxpayer-funded benefits are reserved for those legally eligible
Strengthen safeguards and close loopholes to prevent misuse of taxpayer dollars.
Occurrences
"For too long, Washington has spent taxpayer money it doesn’t have, racking up trillions in debt and passing the burden on to our children and grandchildren,"
Evidence
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks as a cosponsor of H.R.2716 on 2025-12-16. The page identifies S.269 as an identical bill and records its latest action as 2026-02-10: Became Public Law No. 119-77.
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Treasury said a new government-wide payment verification process screened over 885 million payments worth about $2.77 trillion and identified more than 4,900 payments worth about $99 million associated with deceased payees before disbursement. Treasury also said the February 2026 Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act provided permanent access to the Full Death Master File.
Assessments
Miller-Meeks cosponsored H.R.2716 in the 119th Congress, the House companion to S.269, which became Public Law 119-77 in February 2026. Treasury later reported implementation of a government-wide safeguard using expanded death-data access to screen payments and prevent improper payments to deceased payees. This is a concrete same-term safeguard against misuse of taxpayer dollars, but it addresses one specific improper-payment loophole rather than fully satisfying the broader promise to strengthen safeguards and close loopholes generally.