Posted on 09/06/2026 6:29:44 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
In just a few months, the Trump-McMahon administration has saved U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by fighting fraud.
The White House Fraud Task Force is assisting the Department of Education (ED) to ensure the government isn’t wasting educational funding on nonsense, or letting taxpayer money go to criminals.
Thanks to common-sense reforms led by @WHFraudTF and @EDSecMcMahon, ED has saved American taxpayers more than $400 MILLION by cracking down on fraud, waste, and abuse.
And we’re just getting started. pic.twitter.com/9dzIdgw7UK
— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) September 3, 2026 As a victim of federal student loan fraud myself, I particularly appreciate the Trump administration’s crackdown on fraud. It took me a year and a half of fighting with the government and various third parties to prove that I was not the person who took out loans in my name, since the Biden administration deliberately removed guardrails and made it as easy as possible to obtain funding, but as difficult as possible to prove fraud. The Trump administration is reversing that deliberate decline.
In fact, the Daily Wire piece that ED shared had a mention of the fact that the Biden administration stopped data-sharing agreements with other federal agencies that would have assisted in the identification of ineligible or fake recipients. One of the reasons was clearly to ensure illegal aliens could receive student loans, because one terminated partnership was with the Department of Homeland Security.
Just as Democrats don’t want voter ID, they also didn’t want to require IDs to receive federal aid. The same reasoning is behind both decisions. The Trump administration has to correct years of deliberate fraud.
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The Democrat Politicians and their cohort of Government Bureaucrats work very hard to make it easy to cheat and defraud the taxpayers.
Trump is reversing a Biden scheme which deliberately removed guardrails
and made it easy to obtain funding, but even more difficult to prove fraud.
Wouldnt be surprised if Hunter Biden had his
greedy, drug-infested hands in the education till.
The real question is not how much did they save. It is “How Much did they spend and cost taxpayers.
Kind of like using a coupon to purchase caviar.
The Dept. of Education needs to know their ‘gazintas’ a bit better...
Democrats see taxpayer money as their private slush fund. If FOXNews wants to do something beyond 'emoting' they should look into this type of crap. And sorry Bret but it won't show up in democrat war room news packets...
“””Democrats see taxpayer money as their private slush fund. If FOXNews wants to do something beyond ‘emoting’ they should look into this type of crap. And sorry Bret but it won’t show up in democrat war room news packets...””””
So true. FOX NEWS wants the fraud to continue so they can issue clickbait soundbites to entice viewers to watch their channel.
The whole “Education” Dept IS FRAUD!
Is anyone else tired of reading about fraud against the government?
Yes...but Hoping the voters are hearing it. It takes MANY times of hearing something to get SOME peoples attention...and you know SOME people are denser than doorknobs.
The problem is at least half the country doesn’t understand that government waste, fraud, and abuse affects their pocketbook. It’s just some abstract idea out there in the ether because they are economic illiterates.
I’ll believe it when I, a taxpayer, get the refund check for my share in the mail...
Meanwhile, the NYS Office of Cannabis Management is making them look like pikers...
Per AI, sourced to said office, state as drug dealer, collecting since 2022...
“New York’s legal cannabis market has generated more than $3.2 billion in total statewide sales since recreational sales began. The New York State Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) oversees this market, which includes 667 operational adult-use dispensaries and supports community reinvestment grants through state tax collections.”
The reason is simple, Dims use the US treasury to bribe voters (real/illegal) to vote for them. And they bring illegal foreign nationals into the country to vote for them. Federal judges be d@mned.
The would be 400 millions less to spend in the economy. (according to Democrats).
Lost of Dems are actually happy with the fraud.
The consider if a money injected into their districts!
Helping their constituents!
“require IDs to receive federal aid”
In GA, and nationwide neither SSN nor any ID is necessary to uniquely ID the recipient. The result is that Sue Smith, Susan Smith, Susan Jones-Smith can have 3 Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System ID and 3 benefit plans. In most cases Sue is unsophisticated and does no plan fraud.
It is Deloitte that is contractually obligated to be professional in IT and isn’t. Deloitte is the #1 welfare fraud.
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