February 12, 2025 – A trillion dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse—every single year—because of weak ID verification in government programs

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Wow. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services, testifying in front of the DOGE Subcommittee, says by implementing robust ID verification could save $1 trillion every single year in entitlements.

“Between federal, state, and local government, you can save one trillion dollars a year by simply putting in front-end identity verification, eliminating self-certification, and monitoring the back-end of the programs that are providing the benefits.”

A trillion dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse—every single year—because of weak ID verification in government programs. That’s what Haywood Talcove just exposed in front of the DOGE Subcommittee, and it confirms exactly what Trump and Musk have been saying: the system is completely broken and designed to enrich fraudsters, not serve the American people.

For years, Democrats have fought against basic ID verification, claiming it’s “unnecessary” while simultaneously allowing billions to flow into fraudulent claims—whether it’s welfare fraud, Medicaid scams, or illegal migrants gaming the system. One trillion dollars per year could be saved just by requiring real ID verification—but Biden’s bureaucrats would rather let that money vanish than admit their policies are enabling the fraud.

DOGE is exposing the deep rot within federal, state, and local governments. Every taxpayer should be outraged that their hard-earned money is being funneled into fake identities, self-certification scams, and unmonitored benefit programs that are effectively a Democrat slush fund.

This isn’t just incompetence—it’s deliberate. The Trump administration is now putting an end to the grift, and the panic from the establishment proves it. Fraud is over. The reckoning has begun.