Biden's team quietly turned off Medicare and Medicaid fraud protections – and left them off for four years.
Now Trump's DOJ is counting the bodies.
And the number Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche dropped Tuesday is going to stay with you.
DOJ Has 8000 Active Fraud Cases and Says Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Is Still Just a Fraction of the Problem
Blanche stepped to the podium at the Robert F. Kennedy DOJ building Tuesday and announced that federal prosecutors across the country are working on more than 8,000 active fraud matters.
In a single 48-hour window this week, the DOJ locked in a guilty plea in a $160 million health care enrollment fraud scheme, a sentencing in a $100 million COVID-19 fraud case, and a second guilty plea in a separate $160 million health care fraud scheme.
Three cases.
Two days.
$420 million in taxpayer money stolen.
And Blanche made sure everyone understood the uncomfortable truth: those 8,000 cases are a fraction of what's actually out there.
"These cases represent a fraction of the fraud ripping off our country every day," Blanche said.
Eight thousand active federal fraud investigations – and the man running the DOJ is telling you it barely scratches the surface.
Biden Turned Off Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Fraud Protections and Left Them Off for Four Years
Here's what the media won't tell you straight: this explosion of fraud didn't happen by accident.
JD Vance laid it out at the task force's first meeting last month.
The Biden administration didn't just fail to stop fraud – it actively turned off the systems designed to catch it.
"A lot of the anti-fraud protections that existed in our government for a very long time were actually turned off by the Biden administration," Vance said. "It became a massive, massive problem under the Biden administration."
White House anti-fraud task force Vice Chair Andrew Ferguson spelled out exactly what happened.
Biden's team switched off fraud detection systems during COVID – supposedly so payments could go out faster – and then never turned them back on.
Four years.
The safeguards sat dormant while fraudsters treated your tax dollars like a personal ATM.
The GAO estimated the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.
Over $300 billion in fraudulent payments poured out through pandemic-era programs alone – unemployment insurance, PPP loans, COVID relief – with 19 separate federal programs targeted.
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Biden's answer to all of this was to keep the detection systems off.
Trump and Blanche Launch New DOJ Fraud Enforcement Division to Shut It Down
On March 16, Trump signed an executive order creating the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, putting Vance in charge and directing every cabinet agency to share data and coordinate enforcement for the first time in American history.
The results came fast.
Since March 25, CMS has suspended 221 hospice and home health providers in California over suspected fraud.
The DOJ has executed search warrants and made arrests in Los Angeles tied to healthcare and hospice schemes.
Vance personally swore in Colin McDonald as the new assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement.
Blanche also announced the creation of a National Fraud Enforcement Division – a centralized hub using data analytics to identify and track fraud schemes across every taxpayer-funded program in the country.
Vance described the coordination driving all of it: RFK Jr. talking to Scott Bessent about Medicare anomalies, Bessent flagging issues at Treasury, Brooke Rollins watching agriculture programs, Scott Turner monitoring housing assistance – every cabinet principal focused on the same target at the same time.
That had never happened before.
This Is What Accountability Looks Like
Biden spent four years telling you the system was working fine.
Meanwhile, states ran billion-dollar schemes through Medicaid – billing the federal government nearly triple Medicare rates through a provider tax loophole.
Trump's own White House executive order later described it as states being "permitted to game the system."
That scheme alone reached $110 billion in a single year.
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Every dollar that disappeared into a fraudulent hospice in Los Angeles, a ghost COVID relief claim, or a fake healthcare provider anywhere in the country was a dollar that didn't reach the senior waiting for home health care or the child who needed autism services.
That's the real crime here.
Not just the fraud – but four years of a president who saw the door open and decided to leave it that way.
Trump slammed it shut.
Blanche is now hauling the criminals through it.
Eight thousand cases is a beginning, not an end.
And the fraudsters who thought Biden's Washington would protect them just found out who runs the DOJ now.
Sources:
- Nick Gilbertson, "Attorney General Blanche Says 8,000 Fraud Cases Underway; DOJ Working with Vance's Anti-Fraud Task Force," Breitbart, April 7, 2026.
- "Todd Blanche Takes Command, Unveils DOJ Fraud Crackdown After Bondi Ouster," Washington Examiner, April 7, 2026.
- "Vance Says Biden Admin 'Turned Off' Anti-Fraud Protections, Debuts New Task Force with Focus on Somali Schemes," Fox News, March 27, 2026.
- "Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid," White House Presidential Actions, June 6, 2025.
- "Fraud and Its Consequences – Who Steals from Federal Programs and What's the Cost?" U.S. GAO, 2024.