Fraud Crisis Impacting American Taxpayers

The sad truth confronting the United States is that criminals

steal hundreds of billions of dollars every year

from the taxpayer.

To put this crisis into perspective, more taxpayer

dollars go to fraudsters every year than to most

federal departments and agencies, including the combined

budgets of the Departments of Energy, Justice, and

Interior.

Hundreds of billions of dollars every single

year taken by criminal actors.

And there is no end to what the fraudsters will take.

No program is too noble or too

compassionate for a fraudster. No program is

off-limits for a fraudster. They will take from all of

us until there is nothing left.

Fraud against the American taxpayer is a crisis of the first order.

President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Attorney General Blanche have taken

this crisis head-on, resolved to protect the

American taxpayer. Under their leadership, the federal

government has launched the most robust, coordinated fraud-fighting

effort the country has ever attempted.

And those efforts are already bearing fruit for the American

people.

In the one hundred and ninety days since Attorney General

Blanche created

the National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Department of Justice has

announced over one thousand major fraud enforcement actions

across the country. Medicaid fraud, SNAP fraud, HUD fraud,

Social Security fraud, SBA fraud, and the list goes on

and on. We are on the move to protect

taxpayer dollars and our taxpayer-funded programs

meant to help our elderly, our children, our

sick, our hungry, and our homeless.

Different programs, different schemes, but the same

target in all of these cases,

the American people.