On Tuesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a fraud prevention program put in place in the Treasury Department in 2026. The obvious question is why wasn’t this done long ago.

The article reports:

The U.S. Treasury announced the successful implementation of fraud prevention programs across the Department in 2026 protecting a significant amount of taxpayer money.

On Monday, the Treasury Department confirmed it had screened over 1.1 billion federal payments totaling $3.7 trillion dollars and identified 13,500 fraudulent payments worth $175 million that would have gone to deceased individuals, according to its Tuesday press release.

“Treasury continues to transform how the federal government protects taxpayer dollars by using better data, stronger controls, and advanced technology to stop fraud and improper payments before money goes out the door,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in the release. “In the past year alone, Treasury built and deployed new safeguards.”

The article concludes:

Through the Do Not Pay program, the government analyzed and screened 2.3 billion records through the Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS), according to the department’s Monday press release.

The Treasury implemented these programs in coordination with President Donald Trump’s March 2025 Executive Order 14249, “Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.”

Unfortunately, this program was implemented through an Executive Order and can be undone if the Democrats win Congress in the mid-term elections or the presidency in 2028. We not only need to elect Republicans, we need to elect Republicans who will turn Executive Orders like this into law!