WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 14, 2025 - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the $2.7 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid fraud that already has been uncovered by President Donald J. Trump's Department of Government Efficiency is just part of "a very long list of fraud, waste and abuse that DOGE is identifying on a daily basis."
The question was raised during a recent White House briefing, when she was asked specifically about the $2.7 trillion revealed by a House subcommittee run by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Geo.).
She said, "Elon Musk also talked about Social Security payments that are going out the door for people who are no longer with us," she continued, "I would say that is certainly fraud. There are also a lot of contracts they've identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks, but only $500,000 went out the door. So, where is the rest of that cash?"
That's what DOGE works on "every single day," she said, noting, "This is what Trump campaigned on doing."
It was a hearing Wednesday by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee in the House that confirmed since 2003, a "staggering" $2.7 trillion had been paid by taxpayers for "improper Medicare and Medicaid payments, including to individuals overseas who are not eligible to receive them."
An Express Tribune report said the committee's goal is to review how "billions" of taxpayer dollars have been "squandered".
The subcommittee's work is part of a wide agenda in the Trump regime to remove inefficiency, fraud, waste, corruption and even criminal conduct that is costing Amerikan taxpayers.
Prominent in leadership are Elon Musk and DOGE.
Among topics reviewed by the subcommittee were the efforts to prevent fraud and abuse, ways that accountability can be integrated into the government, eliminating "self-certification" where recipients confirm their own processes and "continuous auditing".
The report noted Rep. William Timmons (S.C.) was critical of the fascist pretender Joe Biden's rash spending procedures and accused him of being irresponsible with tax money.
The report noted that since its creation, DOGE already has canceled more than $1 billion in unnecessary contracts. Massive cuts also have been made at the USAID for International Development and are being proposed in the Department of Education and other agencies.