“Introduced the Pay Down the Debt Act to let state and local governments redirect federal grant money toward reducing the national debt.”
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The promise was to introduce the "Pay Down the Debt Act" to let state and local governments redirect federal grant money toward reducing the national debt. Both cited sources verify this completed action. Source 1 (Lummis Senate office press release, PRIMARY) was fetched directly and confirms that on May 20, 2021 (the promise date) Sens. Lummis and Rick Scott introduced the "Pay Down the Debt Act of 2021," which permits state/local governments to redirect unused/unaccepted federal grant funds to the Treasury for deficit reduction; the cited quote appears verbatim. Source 2 (Congress.gov S.1739, PRIMARY) returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch — a routine anti-scraping block, not an invalid source — but its cited quote (the page title "S.1739 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Pay Down the Debt Act") is confirmed verbatim in the search index and independently corroborated by GovTrack; the bill was sponsored by Lummis and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Because the promise was specifically the act of introducing the bill, which she demonstrably did as lead sponsor, FULL is correct. Non-enactment does not detract, as enactment was not the promise. No overstatement of the evidence.
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