Senator John Kennedy Talks About His Recently Passed Bill That Ends Payments to Dead Americans: ‘There’s Obviously a Lot of Fraud’ (VIDEO)

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana recently passed a bill that ends the practice of sending government payments to dead people. As he explained during an appearance on NewsNation, even though the payment recipients are dead, someone is cashing the checks, which means it’s fraud.

He says that it took four years to pass the bill because he faced opposition from certain people and groups. He also says that the bill will save the country billions upon billions of dollars.

Partial transcript via Overton News:

KENNEDY: “The idea that we send billions of dollars to dead people and they get cashed. The checks get cashed so obviously a lot fraud.”

“When you die Katie, not that you’re going to die anytime soon, but when you die, your name goes to the Social Security department, they have a list dead people.”

“And but they wouldn’t share it with anybody else. They wouldn’t share it with the Department of Treasury for example.”

“So I had to go pass a bill. Took four years to pass the bill, believe it or not I had opposition. But we finally got it passed and the president signed it yesterday.”

“And so far as I can tell, dead people can still vote, but they can’t cash checks because we’re not going to sending them to them anymore and it’s going to save billions and billions and billions of dollars.”

“Well, every state is different. Some state governors cooperate, some of them don’t.”

“Governor Walz didn’t cooperate. He knew about this fraud, he knew all about it. You know, he lied about it. I’m sorry.”

“No offense to the governor but he learned to lie before he learned to talk.”

This video is cued to begin at the 0:54 mark, so just press play:

Here’s part of a press release from Kennedy’s office:

President Donald Trump signed Sen. John Kennedy’s (R-La.) Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, which will save hard-earned taxpayer money by curbing erroneous payments to individuals who have passed away, into law.

“Using dead Americans to rip off taxpayers is as low as it gets. Many Americans have seen these scams play out across the country and are tired of watching these fraudsters game the system—so am I. That’s why I wrote this common-sense bill to end this outrageous abuse permanently, and I’m grateful President Trump signed it into law so we can ensure taxpayer dollars go to living Americans who actually need our help,” said Kennedy.

This is a great piece of legislation. Kennedy deserves praise for getting it passed.

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