The new website highlights Vice President Vance’s anti-fraud task force, which the administration says has stopped $56 billion in fraudulent payments and is seeking congressional backing for further action.
The White House has launched a website called "The Fraud Ledger" to track fraud crackdowns tied to Vice President Vance’s task force, presenting it as a running account of enforcement actions, takedowns and recovered funds. The site says nearly $230 billion in fraud has been uncovered and $56 billion in fraudulent payments has been stopped. The rollout builds on the White House Task Force on Eliminating Fraud, which held its first meeting in March and met again Wednesday with Republican members of Congress present. During that roundtable, Vance described fraud as a "dual victim crime," saying taxpayers are harmed first and people who rely on the affected federal programs are harmed next. He also urged Congress to codify some of the task force’s work, while saying the administration has worked in some cases with Democratic governors and Democratic attorneys general and would like similar cooperation from Democrats in Washington.