White House Launches Fraud Ledger Tracking $229 Billion in Government Fraud

The White House unveiled a new website, fraud.gov, called the Fraud Ledger, to display the work of the anti‑fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance. Since the task force began in January 2025, it has identified nearly $230 billion in fraudulent activity across federal programs, stopped about $56 billion in payments, and enforced more than $55 billion through settlements, penalties and indictments.

The ledger aggregates data from eight partner agencies, highlighting top actions such as Medicaid fraud deferrals that withheld over $2 billion from California and $500 million from Minnesota, Medicaid oversight actions, and a SNAP retailer crackdown that disqualified thousands of retailers and eliminated fraudulent point‑of‑sale devices. The Small Business Administration reported the largest share of identified fraud at $122 billion, followed by the Department of Health and Human Services with $96.2 billion.