Washington, May 26 -- Rep. Jodey Arrington issued the following press release:
House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) released the following statement after the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in TANF Act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8872/text), a comprehensive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reform package that includes his legislation, the Eliminating Fraud and Improper Payments in TANF Act (https://arrington.house.gov/UploadedFiles/BILLS-119hr2242ih.pdf):
"Washington's abject failure to protect tax dollars has resulted in an unprecedented scale of fraud that threatens not only the sustainability of our safety net programs, but also the futu...