The government is being robbed blind through staggering amounts of fraud.
But that’s all about to change.
And DOGE handed any American the ability to expose the fraud bankrupting the country.
Americans Empowered to Hunt Down Fraudsters
The Health and Human Services DOGE team dropped 10.32 gigabytes of Medicaid claims data – every provider, every billing code, every payment – covering 2018 through 2024, free for any American to download at opendata.hhs.gov.
Within hours, citizen analysts were flagging what the bureaucrats spent years pretending wasn't there.
A sole proprietor operating out of a van in rural New Mexico billed $76 million over seven years – averaging thousands of Medicaid claims every single day.
Washington had the receipts the whole time but no one bothered to look.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent didn't stop at transparency.
He announced that any American who finds fraud and submits evidence will receive 10 to 30 percent of whatever fines the government recovers.
This isn't a tip line. This is the government deputizing an army.
A sharp-eyed retiree in Ohio, a data analyst in Texas, a college kid with a laptop in Georgia – any of them can download this file, find what the bureaucrats ignored for decades, and get paid when the crooks go down.
The Swamp survived this long because it kept ordinary Americans out of the room.
DOGE just kicked the door open.
The 23-Year-Old Who Made Washington Blink
Before DOGE dropped the data, there was Nick Shirley.
A 23-year-old YouTuber with a camera and a public records search walked into Minneapolis last December and pointed out the daycare fraud the national press had been ignoring for years.
His 42-minute video got more than 116 million views on X.
The Trump administration froze child care funding to Minnesota and surged ICE and FBI resources into the Twin Cities.
A kid with a camera did what years of official Washington hand-wringing didn't – he made America look.
The national press had the same public records Shirley used and the same documented fraud patterns federal prosecutors had been building cases.
But they chose not to go. Shirley went.
Minnesota's Feeding Our Future scheme – where fraudsters stole $250 million meant to feed children during COVID – is already the largest pandemic relief fraud in American history.
More than 60 people convicted.
Fake attendance rosters filled with children's names that didn't exist. Taxpayer money blown on lakefront property, luxury cars, and a rented villa in the Maldives.
That's just the scheme investigators happened to catch – in one state, in one program.
U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said Minnesota alone has 14 Medicaid programs flagged as high-risk, with total losses potentially reaching into the billions.
"Just the tip of a very large iceberg," FBI Director Kash Patel said.
Now imagine what's buried in the other 49 states.
Democrats Demanded Transparency. Now They're Silent.
Democrats spent eight years demanding government transparency – bumper stickers, Senate floor speeches, breathless op-eds about the public's sacred right to know.
The Trump administration just delivered the biggest act of transparency in the history of American healthcare spending.
Silence.
No outraged editorials demanding answers for the billions stolen from taxpayers.
Turns out "transparency" means something very specific to Democrats – it means transparency into Republican conduct, donors, and campaigns.
When the books get opened on the programs they built, funded, and protected for decades, the transparency crowd goes quiet every single time.
When a 23-year-old with a camera becomes a bigger threat to government corruption than the entire Washington press corps, you understand exactly what the press is actually for.
This War Just Got 300 Million New Soldiers
The Swamp didn't survive this long because it was clever.
It survived because it kept the books hidden.
For decades, Medicaid operated as a nearly $1 trillion black box – fragmented across state systems, buried in bureaucratic permission slips, administered by people with every incentive to look away.
DOGE arrived at HHS early last year and found what Jeffrey Tucker described as too many programs, too much leakage, and no coordination between departments – a system so deliberately complicated that even a sharp team of analysts got buried.
So they did the only thing that could work at this scale.
They handed it to the American people – with cash bounties attached.
Nick Shirley showed what one citizen with a camera could do to a story the establishment wanted buried.
Now every American has the full dataset, the analytical tools, and a financial incentive to finish the job.
The crooks who spent decades stealing from your neighbors, your parents, and your grandchildren are about to find out what happens when the people they robbed get access to the evidence.
Elon Musk said it best: "DOGE is not a department, it's a state of mind."
The Trump administration created an army of Davids to bring down Goliath.
Sources:
- DOGE HHS (@DOGE_HHS), Announcement on X, February 13, 2026.
- Scott McClallen, "Health and Human Services Releases Massive Open Source Data Set," Townhall, February 14, 2026.
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk), Post on X, February 13, 2026.
- Jeffrey Tucker, "The Crowdsourcing of Cutting Waste & Fraud," The Epoch Times, February 17, 2026.
- U.S. Department of Justice, "78th Defendant Charged in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme," November 2025.
- Fox News, "FBI Surges Resources to Minnesota as Director Patel Calls Fraud 'Tip of a Very Large Iceberg,'" December 28, 2025.
- Newsmax, "DOGE Releases Medicaid Spending Data," February 13, 2026.
