Brian Mast: “States are sitting on nearly $8 billion of your money in…”

“It sends 16 and a half billion dollars a year to states to help families who've fallen on hard times. But it's one of the only taxpayer funded programs that isn't required to track improper payments fraud. States are sitting on nearly $8 billion of your money in unspent funds with no deadline to get it to help go out and help out the door. And the Government Accountability Office found that 78% of the spending has almost no guardrails at all. That's not responsibility with your money. This bill, it does three things.” (03:40–03:51)

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