President Trump has signed an executive order creating a task force to crack down on fraud in government programs. It will be headed by Vice President JD Vance.

This is the administration's second effort to reduce government misspending and overspending following Elon Musk's effort as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

As we approach another April 15 with a $38 trillion debt (and counting), addressing fraud is something that ought to be a bipartisan goal. The fact that it hasn't been a priority for politicians is largely because, I suspect, it isn't their money that is being wasted. It might also be said that those on the receiving end of ill-gotten gains are not about to relinquish their largesse.

How bad is the problem? According to the disingenuously named Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government "loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud in improper payments." The GAO can't give an accurate figure and says it could be higher because not all losses........

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