This really has required a whole of administration approach to try to tackle fraud. There are a few things that I want to talk about and celebrate. The first is that just Since the beginning of the fraud Task force that I started, under the President's leadership and direction, we have identified $230 billion of fraud. that's being perpetrated against the American people. And we have halted already $56 billion of that. It's sometimes hard. Once the money has already gone out the door, it's hard to get it back. (18:16–18:29)
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