The White House has put its anti-fraud campaign on the public record. The Fraud Ledger, a new page at whitehouse.gov/fraud, presents itself as a case file: the running tally of fraud, waste and corruption the Trump administration says it has identified since January 2025, agency by agency, action by action. The headline numbers are enormous — and whatever your politics, the page is now the administration’s own scoreboard, published for anyone to inspect.
The three numbers that headline the Ledger
Every figure on the page falls into one of three buckets, and the definitions matter. Fraud uncovered — $260.7 billion since January 2025 — is the administration’s estimate of total fraud identified through data analysis. Fraud stopped — $72 billion a year, annualized — counts the savings from administrative actions such as suspending providers and changing rules. Fraud enforced — $58.9 billion — is money tied to indictments, settlements and civil penalties. A fourth counter tracks 25 documented actions: charges, suspensions and policies logged in the Ledger’s record section.
The agency scoreboard
Nine partner agencies report to the Ledger, and two of them dominate it. The Small Business Administration posts the largest “uncovered” figure by far — $122.9 billion, driven by pandemic-era loan programs — with $1.3 billion stopped per year and $22.6 billion enforced. Health and Human Services (including Medicare and Medicaid) is second at $96.4 billion uncovered, but leads on money actually stopped: $46.2 billion a year, plus $33.1 billion enforced. Behind them: the Department of Labor ($20.9B uncovered), the GSA ($13.9B) and HUD ($2.4B). Agriculture (SNAP), Education, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security round out the table.
The task force behind it
The effort is coordinated by the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, created by Executive Order 14395 on March 16, 2026. It sits inside the Executive Office of the President, is chaired by the Vice President, and brings together the Treasury, Justice, Agriculture, Labor, Health, Housing, Education, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security departments, plus the SBA and the OMB. One nuance the page itself makes visible: the Ledger counts actions “since January 2025” — more than a year before the Task Force formally existed — so the scoreboard covers the administration’s whole anti-fraud push, not just the task force’s own lifespan.
The top ten flagship actions
Drawn from the White House’s August 2026 report, the Ledger’s ten highest-impact actions show where the money concentrates:
- SBA loan anti-fraud surge: 562,000 borrowers flagged and $22.2 billion referred back to the Treasury, with PPP suspensions itemized by state (California alone: $8.7B).
- Criminal fraud enforcement (DOJ/FBI): $5.4 billion in charged losses, 152 guilty pleas or convictions, 4,862 months of prison sentences — and four “Most Wanted” fugitives captured abroad.
- Medicaid fraud deferrals: $2 billion in California and $500 million in Minnesota payments deferred (HHS/CMS).
- Disaster relief protection: $1.9 billion in Virgin Islands relief funds (VIHFA) suspended under investigation.
- Medicare provider crackdown: national six-month moratoria, with roughly 800 hospice/home-health and 900 equipment providers removed — tied to $1.4B and $1.6B in suspect billing streams.
- Student loan fraud elimination: $1 billion saved in FY2025 and another $1 billion estimated for FY2026.
- Unemployment insurance integrity: $500M in prevention tools, $512M recovered by inspectors general, $1B in bank freezes.
- SNAP retailer crackdown: 735 permanent and 3,739 temporary disqualifications of retailers, worth hundreds of millions a year.
- Ending LA homelessness fraud: $220 million a year in payments to LA’s homeless-services authority suspended.
- Medicaid fraud unit surge: a 90-day enforcement “war room” and state fraud units decertified in New York and Hawaii.
The record: 25 documented actions
Below the scoreboard, the Ledger logs individual cases — 25 entries spanning February to May 2026, sourced from a White House release of May 26, 2026 and agency announcements. The largest: 15 people indicted in Minnesota in May in a health-care fraud scheme topping $90 million, described as the biggest autism-services fraud ever prosecuted; a $1.4 billion suspension of home-health and hospice funding; $1.3 billion in deferred California Medicaid reimbursements; a $270 million reimbursement-fraud guilty plea in Orange County; and a dozen-plus indictments in a $50 million hospice scheme. An interactive map plots the actions by state and locality, and the page closes with a public “Report Fraud” portal for tips.
FAQ
What is the Fraud Ledger?
A White House web page (whitehouse.gov/fraud) presenting the Trump administration’s running record of fraud, waste and corruption identified since January 2025 — totals, an agency-by-agency table, a top-ten list of flagship actions, a case log and a state-by-state map.
How much fraud does it claim?
$260.7 billion “uncovered” (estimated, since January 2025), $72 billion a year “stopped” through administrative actions, and $58.9 billion “enforced” through indictments, settlements and penalties.
Are these figures independently verified?
They are the administration’s own reported numbers: agencies supplied the figures to the Task Force, and “uncovered” amounts are estimates from data analysis rather than court-proven losses. The enforced column — indictments and settlements — is the portion anchored in legal outcomes.
Who runs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud?
Created by Executive Order 14395 (March 16, 2026), it sits in the Executive Office of the President and is chaired by the Vice President, with cabinet departments, the SBA and the OMB at the table.
The verdict
The Fraud Ledger is part scoreboard, part argument: the administration is telling its anti-fraud story in public, with numbers big enough to demand scrutiny — and, to its credit, published in a format that invites it. Read the “enforced” column as the hardest evidence, the “uncovered” column as the administration’s estimate of the problem’s scale, and the case log as the part to watch: 25 documented actions today, and a counter designed to keep climbing.
