{"id":590415,"date":"2026-04-22T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=590415"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:49:31","slug":"fraud-is-costing-taxpayers-up-to-half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-and-were-not-doing-enough-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=590415","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Is Costing Taxpayers Up To Half A Trillion Dollars A Year, And We\u2019re Not Doing Enough To Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hospice-money-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt='In a gray hooded sweatshirt, Nick Shirley leans in front of an idling BMW and says, in a caption, that \"this is the sound of hospice money.\"' \/>The Trump administration has taken a series of significant steps against fraud, but so far they&#8217;re mostly going it alone.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hospice-money-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"Fraud Is Costing Taxpayers Up To Half A Trillion Dollars A Year, And We\u2019re Not Doing Enough To Stop It\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has taken a series of significant steps against fraud, but so far they&#8217;re mostly going it alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":590416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/590416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}