a renewed focus on making sure taxpayer dollars go where they are intended
Ensure taxpayer dollars go where they are intended.
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Evidence
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The House Oversight Committee said the House passed H.R. 1722, the Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2025, introduced by Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Yassamin Ansari, to disclose federally funded projects that are behind schedule or above initial cost projections so public and congressional oversight can be applied.
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Miller-Meeks as a cosponsor of H.R. 2716 on Dec. 16, 2025, and identifies S. 269, the identical bill, as becoming Public Law No. 119-77 on Feb. 10, 2026.
Assessments
Miller-Meeks materially advanced taxpayer-oversight goals in the same federal term: she introduced H.R. 1722, which passed the House, and cosponsored H.R. 2716, the House companion to an enacted law limiting improper federal payments to deceased people. These actions address concrete parts of the promise, but the broad promise to ensure taxpayer dollars go where intended was not fully delivered because the main oversight bill was not shown as enacted and the enacted law covers only a subset of improper spending.