CONFIRMED! DOGE finds $2.7 trillion in Medicare, Medicaid fraud

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the $2.7 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid fraud that already has been uncovered by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is just part of “a very long list of fraud, waste and abuse that DOGE is identifying on a daily basis.”

The question was raised during a recent White House briefing, when she was asked specifically about the $2.7 trillion revealed by a House subcommittee run by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

She said:

The U.S. government sent $2.7 TRILLION in Medicare & Medicaid money overseas to people who were NOT eligible to receive it.

That’s 8% of our national debt.

Medicare isn’t going broke. The money is being stolen. pic.twitter.com/pFSoKjTCuS

— DOGE NEWS- Department of Government Efficiency (@realdogeusa) February 13, 2025

“Elon Musk also talked about yesterday about Social Security payments that are going out the door for people who are no longer with us,” she continued, “I would say that is certainly fraud. There’s also a lot of contracts they’ve identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks, but only $500,000 went out the door. So where’s the rest of that cash?”

That’s what DOGE works on “every single day,” she said, noting, “This is what Trump campaigned on doing.”

It was a hearing Wednesday by the Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee in the House that confirmed since 2003, a “staggering” $2.7 trillion had been paid by taxpayers for “improper Medicare and Medicaid payments, including to individuals overseas who are not eligible to receive them.”

An Express Tribune report said the committee’s goal is the review how “billions” of taxpayer dollars have been “squandered.”

The subcommittee’s work is part of a wide agenda in the Trump administration to remove inefficiency, fraud, waste, corruption and even criminal conduct that is costing American taxpayers.

Prominent in leadership is Elon Musk and the DOGE.

Among topics reviewed by the subcommittee were the efforts to prevent fraud and abuse, ways that accountability can be integrated into the government, eliminating “self-certification” where recipients confirm their own processes and “continuous auditing.”

The report noted Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., was critical of Joe Biden’s rash spending procedures, and accused him of being irresponsible with tax money.

The report noted since its creation, DOGE already has canceled more than $1 billion in unnecessary contracts. Massive cuts also have been made at U.S. Aid for International Development and are being proposed in the Department of Education and other agencies.