Tackling Fraud to Protect Taxpayers and Restore Trust

Presidential Directive and Fraud's Importance

When the President of the United States said, J.D., we've got a fraud problem and I want you to tackle it, I was so proud and so happy to be able to do it because I realized that fraud isn't just about saving money.It's not just about protecting taxpayers.It's about protecting you.Our administration is focused on restoring trust in America and restoring trust in the American dream, and we're focused on actually delivering results for all of you.

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Planner: Eli Hart

September 18, 2026

Achievements in Fraud Identification and Enforcement

We have been able to identify $230 billion of fraud just since the Fraud Task Force was set up.Because of the Vice President's leadership, you are seeing the most muscular, robust, aggressive, dedicated, determined, and speedy effort to shut down criminal fraud that has not only ever occurred in the history of this country, but in any developed nation.We must restore deterrence. by finding, prosecuting, and punishing fraudsters.We really have the most accelerated, aggressive anti-fraud operation that we've ever seen from the federal government.No amount of fraud is too big or too small.

If you're defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who's helping you ought to go to prison too.We have managed to take the fight to the fraudsters.We've managed to save hundreds of billions of dollars of your tax dollars, and God willing, we're to save hundreds of billions of more in the next two and a half years.