Vice President JD Vance has announced that a large portion of fraudulent payments have been stopped.
In the historic Cabinet meeting at Camp David, the first to ever be televised, the vice president gave an update on the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. The group has been working on identifying and eliminating sources of fraud that are draining taxpayer dollars from the United States, and it appears they are working hard.
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.@VP: “Just since the beginning of the Fraud Task Force that I started under @POTUS‘ leadership and direction, we have identified $230 billion of fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American people, and we have halted, already, $56 billion of that. It’s sometimes hard,… pic.twitter.com/ZRn3aVUvUf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 31, 2026
“Just since the beginning of the Fraud Task Force that I started under [President Donald Trump]‘s leadership and direction, we have identified $230 billion of fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American people, and we have halted, already, $56 billion of that,” Vance said. “It’s sometimes hard, once the money has already gone out the door, it’s hard to get it back, but stopping it from going out the door is how we saved the American people $56 billion, and of course we’re going to keep on working on that. Just today, Mr. President, we will announce 17 new anti-fraud actions that will total about a third of a billion dollars, and that’s added to the $230 billion that we’ve already uncovered.”
“So, to give one concrete example, there is a program that is administered by Medicaid, and that program ensures that low-income moms and low-income babies have access to neonatal care,” the vice president continued, wanting to really drive home the importance of the task force’s work. “And, I think most Americans probably share my view, this is one of the great things about the United States of America, that if we see a baby and we see a young mother that requires help, we help our fellow Americans. That’s a good thing. It’s something that we should be proud of. And yet, there is a program that has defrauded the moms and the babies who benefit from these. You’ve got people who’ve gotten rich by setting up false companies that are providing false services. So who loses in that equation? Number one, of course, is the American taxpayer that is $230 billion poorer because of the fraud that this country has let go on. But I actually think most importantly is that we’ve seen that program run out of money. So we’ve seen moms and babies unable to access the healthcare that they need because the fraudsters have gotten rich. That is a disgrace. And until the president ordered us to stop it, no one was doing anything about it.”
X users reacted to the announcement:
Convictions, we want our money back AND massive federal prison sentences. Do not prosecute in DC, the fraud and most every crime will be pushed aside under the leftest democratic judges put into place by the same people committing this fraud.
— Banshee232 (@Banshee232A) August 1, 2026
The Biden administration had a blast spending our money so recklessly knowing that Biden was asleep behind the wheel. Schumer, Schiff, Jeffries, Murphy ALL need to be held accountable for their party’s corruption!
— Chris H. (@Chris71832) August 1, 2026
I want to put “$230 billion of fraud” into perspective.
As of today, McDonald’s is valued at $191.2 billion.
They have locations all over the world.
They are a giant company. And they are not as much in value today as this fraud was. pic.twitter.com/is1c4tNFAY
— Because Before (@becausebeforeBB) July 31, 2026
Amazing!! You should be running an ad on this in every local news outlet so people know this. You know the mainstream media isn’t reporting it.
— AranS (@missrockspider) August 1, 2026
Always nice to stop fraud – but you have to get the identified fraudulent payments back. You identified 230 billion of fraud – how many people are being prosecuted?
— Larry Liberty (@larryliberty76) August 1, 2026
