White House launches fraud ledger tracking nearly $230B in estimated fraud
The new website distinguishes fraud estimated through data analysis from annual payments stopped and dollars involved in enforcement actions.
The White House on Aug. 6 launched Fraud.gov, a public online ledger cataloging the Trump administration’s anti-fraud actions and reporting nearly $230 billion in estimated fraud identified since January 2025.
The site, called “The Fraud Ledger,” is designed as a searchable record of actions taken by the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and its partner agencies. The Daily Wire first reported the rollout.
The ledger divides the administration’s results into three categories. “Fraud uncovered” is an estimate generated through data analysis; “fraud stopped” counts annualized savings from steps such as provider suspensions and policy changes; and “fraud enforced” covers money connected to indictments, settlements, and civil monetary penalties.
“President Trump is waging an all-out war on fraud, shutting down billions of dollars in taxpayer theft,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told The Daily Wire. She said the administration’s enforcement effort is also intended to preserve federal programs for the Americans they were created to serve.
According to figures reported by The Daily Wire, agencies have uncovered an estimated $229.9 billion in fraud, stopped $56.4 billion in fraudulent payments annually, and linked $55.5 billion to enforcement actions since January 2025.
The Small Business Administration accounts for the largest share of estimated fraud uncovered, at $122.9 billion, followed by the Department of Health and Human Services at $96.2 billion and the Department of Labor at $7 billion.
The ledger lists Medicaid payment deferrals of more than $2 billion in California and $500 million in Minnesota among the task force’s highest-impact actions. The White House also highlighted the suspension of nearly 8,000 Wisconsin borrowers connected to $375 million in suspected fraudulent COVID-related loans, the blocking of 53,000 fraudulent student-aid applications that it said would have cost more than $200 million, and the removal of 1,076 California hospices from Medicare over fraud.
President Donald Trump formally established the task force by executive order March 16, naming Vice President JD Vance its chairman. Although the task force was formally created in March, the new ledger compiles administration-wide actions dating to January 2025.
As Zeale News previously reported, Vance said in May that fraud does not merely cost taxpayers; it also robs students, sick people, and small businesses that depend on the affected programs. At the time, the task force had referred $22 billion in suspected fraudulent or delinquent small-business loans for collection, identified $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts, and blocked $60 million in student aid.
