TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – An East Texas congressman is pushing legislation that he said would make a pandemic-era fraud detection program a permanent fixture of the federal government.
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Waco) said legislation he helped advance through the House, the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act, would target what he described as billions of dollars in misdirected government payments. The bill would establish an Office of the Inspector General for Fraud, Accountability, and Recovery within the U.S. Treasury.
“Taxpayers need to have confidence that the money that the American people receive is done properly,” Sessions said. “They need to be assured that the federal government has a vested interest in making sure that the right money was given for the right reason.”
Sessions said the Biden administration created a program called the Pandemic Response Accountability…
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