In the last decade alone, the federal government has sent $1.9 trillion of improper payments to the wrong people in the wrong amounts.
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The U.S. House of Representatives held its first DOGE Subcommittee hearing on Feb. 12, focusing on fraud and improper payments.
With the federal government having issued over $1.9 trillion in improper payments over the past decade — including $567 billion in Medicaid programs alone — improper payments offer low-hanging fruit for improving government efficiency, but President Trump and DOGE will need Congress’s help to successfully crack down on them.
