Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Is Too Big to Ignore
Federal taxpayers lose hundreds of billions of dollars each year to waste, fraud, and abuse. In 2025 alone, the federal government reported $184 billion in improper payments. That is equivalent to eight weeks of gas and groceries for every household in America. Yet, that figure does not include programs that were not measured or fraud that was not detected. While official improper payment reports include only a few billion in “confirmed fraud” each year, the Government Accountability Office estimated that taxpayers lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.
Waste, fraud, and abuse have become so prevalent in federal programs that their costs now rival major American industries such as agriculture and the auto industry, and fraud estimates rival or exceed trucking, legal services, and national defense. Reconciliation 3.0…
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