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Trump and Vance Address the Nation as DOGE and the House Committee Keep Exposing the Scams
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance spoke from the Oval Office today while the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the House DOGE Subcommittee continues to surface the scale of government waste, fraud, and abuse.
Musk and DOGE opened the books on programs that had operated for years with little scrutiny. The House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene and backed by Chairman James Comer, held hearings that put hard numbers in front of the public. Those numbers come from GAO reports the agencies themselves have filed for two decades. They show a long-running pattern of improper payments that should never have gone out the door.
Here is a reference list of the key figures highlighted by DOGE and the committee. Readers can keep it for tracking:
- $2.8 trillion: Cumulative improper payments reported by federal agencies since fiscal year 2003. Improper means the money should not have been paid or was paid in the wrong amount. Most were overpayments. Chairman Comer cited this total at the subcommittee’s first hearing.
- $162 billion: Improper payments estimated for fiscal year 2024 across 68 programs. About 84 percent were overpayments. Five big programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credit, SNAP, and one pandemic fund) accounted for most of it.
- $186 billion: Improper payments estimated for fiscal year 2025. The cumulative total since 2003 now sits near $3 trillion.
- $233 billion to $521 billion: GAO’s range for annual fraud losses across the federal government. The higher end reflects high-risk periods such as pandemic programs.
- Roughly $382 million: Fraudulent unemployment insurance claims since 2020 that DOGE flagged in an initial survey. That included claims from people listed as over 115 years old ($59 million), children ages 1–5 ($254 million), and people with birth dates more than 15 years in the future ($69 million). One claim used a 2154 birth year. The Labor Department confirmed the findings and said it is recovering the money.
- USAID and related foreign-aid items DOGE spotlighted:
- $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma.
- $520 million for consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa.
- $20 million for a Sesame Street program in Iraq.
- $10 million for voluntary medical male circumcision in Mozambique.
- $59 million for hotel housing of illegal immigrants in New York.
- Smaller items such as a transgender opera in Colombia, a transgender comic book in Peru, and DEI musical events abroad.
- DEI and related grants terminated: Examples include $101 million in DEI training grants at the Department of Education and multiple multi-million-dollar DEI and gender-equity programs at USAID and other agencies that DOGE listed on its Wall of Receipts.
- $180–$215 billion: DOGE’s own Wall of Receipts total for claimed savings from canceled contracts, grants, leases, and workforce reductions in its early months. The subcommittee has treated that figure as the starting point Congress must lock in permanently.
- About $400 million: Savings from nearly 700 canceled federal office leases covering millions of square feet, according to DOGE and GSA figures discussed in later subcommittee hearings.
The subcommittee’s first hearing focused on improper payments and fraud. Witnesses described how weak front-end identity checks and self-certification let fraud rings and ineligible recipients drain programs. Private-sector fraud rates run around 3 percent; federal rates are far higher. Comer noted that Democrats once joined Republicans in condemning the problem, then switched to defending the bureaucracy once DOGE started acting. Greene’s panel has continued the work with hearings on foreign aid, real-estate holdings, and other areas where money left the Treasury without clear benefit to American taxpayers.
Musk’s team also cleaned Social Security records that still listed millions of people as alive long after any realistic lifespan and after decades of no activity. Those database errors created openings for improper payments. Unemployment systems showed similar gaps with claims filed under impossible ages and dates.
The Oval Office address today sits against that backdrop. Trump and Vance have repeatedly tied the efficiency effort to protecting taxpayers and reducing the debt load that now carries interest payments larger than the entire defense budget. The House committee’s job is to make the identified cuts permanent through legislation rather than leaving them as temporary administrative pauses.
The numbers above are the ones DOGE and the subcommittee put in public view. They give a concrete reference for how large the improper-payment problem has grown and which specific programs and grants were flagged first. Congress can use them to write the rules that stop the same payments from going out again.
— The Whatfinger News Team: Sgt K and Lisa, with Grok on edits
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