America’s Fraud Is Bigger Than You Think

"some people say that fraud, waste, and abuse across the federal government could be as high as $1.5 trillion dollars a year."

"if our tax dollars were not used for fraud, and if it really is $1.5 trillion like some people estimate, then we could exempt, in other words, not pay income taxes on up to $200,000 a year."

"in Minnesota alone, they estimate something like $9 billion worth of fraud and theft has been happening since 2018."

"So, essentially right now in Minnesota, if you're a legal citizen, you can vouch on behalf of eight people to vote."

"If you work for certain residential places, like for example, group homes, shelters, assisted living facilities, child care centers, the rules actually allow staff members to vouch for an unlimited number of residents at that location."

"Just recently, HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, discovered that in 2024 alone, over $5 billion went to over $200,000 inactive accounts."

"Of that money, 77 million went to people who weren't even alive. 150 million went to social security numbers that didn't even exist. 288 million of that went to pay excessively high rent, so maybe things like luxury housing, which obviously this isn't supposed to be for, and 5.2 billion to inactive SAM.gov accounts."

"from the limited information that we have, over the last 20 years or so, the government has misappropriated roughly $2.7 trillion."

"When Elon proposed the Department of Government Efficiency, it shouldn't have been a left versus right idea. It's a very simple idea. Let's go look for fraud."