A day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported $10 billion in improper payments to the federal food assistance program, Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett said he will introduce two bills to stop "widespread fraud."

Burchett, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, said Thursday that one bill would restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to only U.S. citizens.

The second bill increases fines for what he called retail trafficking of SNAP benefits to up to $500,000.

"Congress needs to get some real guts and do something and quit talking," Burchett said in a social media video posted shortly after the DOGE subcommittee meeting. "I'm sick of it. We need to do what we said we were going to do and this is part of it, the fraud, waste and abuse, it's just rampant."

New SNAP error rates released on Wednesday show more than $10 billion in improper payments. Burchett's home state of Tennessee has an error rate of 9.44%. House Resolution 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, requires states to pay a portion of federal benefits if their error rates exceed 6%. For Tennessee, that is 10% of the benefit cost beginning Oct. 1.

HR1 also requires states to pay 75% of administrative costs, which are split 50-50 with the federal government.

States with error rates above 13.43% will get a delay. Tennessee's southern neighbor, Georgia, is one of the states with a high error rate, ranking fifth worst in the country at 15.21%.

“These payment error rates are further proof that state accountability is severely lacking in SNAP,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday. “USDA has taken historic action to help interested states curb SNAP waste, and I hope other states, regardless of political leadership, prioritize needy families and the American taxpayer over politics.”