00:00We have been able to identify $230 billion of fraud just since the Fraud Task Force was set up,
00:08and that's frankly by conservatively estimating it. Andrew and I had a meeting in my office last
00:13week and he said, do you want to estimate it conservatively or do you want to estimate it
00:16aggressively? And I said, well, I kind of want to estimate it aggressively, but then all you
00:20people will criticize us, so let's estimate it conservatively so that we can give the American
00:24people the most rock-solid explanation of how this task force is working to protect their money.
00:30We've been able to stop $56 billion in fraudulent payments that would have otherwise gone to
00:35fraudsters rather than to the people who need them, and in the process we've saved, obviously,
00:40the American people a lot of money. But as much as we've done and as much as we've had great
00:45successes, and this brings me to my final point before I kick it over to Andrew, this effort
00:50will fundamentally always have a limitation unless our colleagues in the House and the Senate are
00:57working with us. We don't want the next administration, whoever, you know, God forbid you're
01:02going to have President El-Sayed in three years, we don't want him to undo all the incredible work
01:07that we've been doing when we've been taking out the fraudsters and saving the American people money.
01:14And in order to make this really work, we need our colleagues in Congress to really codify some
01:19of this stuff to make sure that it becomes law. And again, this is the sort of thing where, while
01:24I,
01:24you know, I see only Republicans surrounding us today, we really have been able to work in some
01:30cases with Democratic governors and Democratic attorneys generals on the anti-fraud task force,
01:35and we would love, I'm not necessarily holding my breath, but we would love to work with Democrats in
01:40Washington to codify some of the anti-fraud actions that we've taken and to take it to the next level.
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