Requires federal agencies and states to tighten fraud controls across several federal programs, including child care, Medicare and Medicaid, small business loans, COVID-era funds, and veterans' benefits, and rescinds unspent COVID funding.

• Requires child care payments to follow recorded attendance rather than enrollment alone, and requires providers to keep attendance records for 7 years
• Requires notice to the HHS Inspector General when Medicare, Medicaid, or marketplace payments in a zip code and county rise more than 100 percent in a single year
• Bars people finally convicted of certain COVID-era loan or grant fraud from receiving most SBA financial assistance
• Rescinds unobligated balances from six COVID-era laws, with a national security waiver and the savings directed to deficit reduction
• Extends the statute of limitations to 10 years for certain fraud involving pandemic-era programs and SBA shuttered venue and restaurant grants
• Creates a Veterans Scam and Fraud Evasion Officer in the Veterans Experience Office, sunsetting September 30, 2030
• Expands whistleblower protections for employees of defense and federal contractors, including state and local government contractors
• Restricts federal financial assistance to entities controlled by agents of covered foreign principals, and requires reports and a strategy concerning assistance to the Taliban

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