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House subcommittee presses for prevention-first approach, urges extending PRAC and do-not-pay access
Summary
At a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing, GAO and pandemic oversight officials urged Congress to prioritize prevention of improper payments, keep Treasury's Do Not Pay effective, and extend the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's analytic work beyond its scheduled September 2025 sunset.
The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations heard bipartisan testimony that Congress should shift from a "pay and chase" model to a prevention-first approach to reduce improper federal payments and fraud.
Ken Diefenbach, executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), told members that "Pay and chase is not the solution. Prevention is." He urged Congress to preserve PRAC's analytic capacity, warning that its scheduled September 2025 sunset would force deletion of curated data and the loss of staff expertise built since 2020.
The hearing featured testimony from Kristin Coakley, managing director for Financial Management and Assurance at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), who told the panel, "The best way to reduce improper or fraudulent payments is…
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