President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his newly minted anti-fraud task force had identified $250 billion in government waste, touting a comprehensive enforcement ledger comprised entirely of cases investigated, tried, and closed during the Biden administration.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his newly minted anti-fraud task force had identified $250 billion in government waste, touting a comprehensive enforcement ledger comprised entirely of cases investigated, tried, and closed during the Biden administration.
The 400-page document, heavily cited by the President in morning remarks, details a sweeping crackdown on pandemic relief grifters and healthcare scammers who were already sentenced to federal prison as early as 2022. According to sources close to leadership, the task force worked through the weekend to achieve the historic milestone by copying and pasting the Department of Justice’s archival press releases into a fresh spreadsheet with a larger font.
Rooting out a quarter of a trillion dollars in systemic fraud is a monumental enforcement victory, particularly given the grueling hours required to digitally erase Merrick Garland's name from the case files.
Internal memos indicate the task force’s accounting methodology permits the current administration to claim credit for any successful federal prosecution they happen to read about in the news. The framework, which was detailed to reporters on background, has reportedly been so successful at generating cost-saving metrics that the White House is currently exploring whether it can retroactively take credit for the 1931 tax evasion sentencing of Al Capone.
Following questions from the press corps regarding the timeline of the arrests, a senior aide doubled down on the ledger's accuracy. The aide clarified that while the perpetrators may have been apprehended under the previous president, the Trump administration was the first to realize how good their convictions looked in a proprietary PowerPoint presentation.