As the Trump administration prioritizes combating fraud in federal programs, the House this week passed almost a dozen bills, several of which are bipartisan, intended to strengthen agencies’ ability to detect and stop fraudulent payments.
The Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act (H.R. 8312) would establish an inspector general office within the Treasury Department dedicated solely to countering grift in programs that provide funding to non-federal entities.
This new IG for Fraud, Accountability and Recovery would subsume the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a panel of IGs that was created in 2020 to oversee COVID-19 spending. Congress expanded the jurisdiction of the interagency entity, however, to include programs funded by the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The measure also would authorize the Treasury to share, on a voluntary basis, data tools with state and local…
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