FIRST LOOK
Inside the Trump admin's playbook to end government fraud
EXCLUSIVE: First Look At The Trump Admin’s Playbook To Root Out Government Fraud
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s anti-fraud Task Force is delivering its opening marching orders this week in a memo from Vice President JD Vance, obtained first by the Daily Wire. The memo outlines a four-part plan that includes more prosecutions, better prevention methods, and targeting programs that are most ripe for abuse.The newly-minted task force’s primary objective is to stop fraud that is “bleeding the federal government dry, robbing taxpayers, and denying honest Americans the services for which they have paid,” according to the memo, which comes from Vance and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Task Force. The “Tackling Fraud Across Public Programs” memorandum is directed to members of the anti-fraud team, which includes White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.The Task Force plans to prosecute those committing fraud and to recover as much fraudulently obtained money as it can, focusing on high-spend, low-verification programs. It acknowledges that recovering money lost to fraud is exceptionally difficult, and therefore...
