"We have met the enemy and he is us."

That famous saying came from Pogo, a satirical comic strip created by Walt Kelly but it could apply today to the Trump adminstration.

Vance Busted Using Bogus Numbers in His Big Crusade

The vice president claimed his task force found $250 billion in fraud—but its own figures tell a murkier
The Daily Beast

Tom Latchem 

Sep. 28 2026

JD Vance’s claim that his White House task force uncovered $250 billion in fraud in just a few months is based on questionable accounting, a new report has revealed.

The vice president has made fighting fraud a major part of his remit since Donald Trump put him in charge of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud in March.

But a New York Times analysis of the administration’s own records found some figures being used by Vance to show his task force’s successes are inflated, difficult to substantiate, or based on work that began before Trump returned to office—which one expert described as a “sleight of hand.”

Naw... the Trump adminstration would never do that! Now would it?

The accounting also includes money the government has not actually recovered, the Times found. More than a third of the ledger’s $59.1 billion in “fraud enforced” is linked to $22.6 billion attributed to the Small Business Administration. Most of that represents delinquent pandemic loans sent for debt collection, which had previously been identified as potentially fraudulent during the Biden administration, rather than billions already clawed back from fraudsters.

What? You mean this is from the Biden adminstration! And Trump is taking credit for it? Figures.