$3 Trillion Wasted on Overpayments Since 2003

NEWS The GAO now says the U.S. government wasted $3 trillion on overpayments since 2003 out of programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, SNAP, the EITC, the VA and more. That’s about the size of France or Italy. Stunning that Democrats attacked Doge and Elon Musk trying…

— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) July 21, 2026

… to stop colossal waste like this. What the DSA and Democrat communists won’t tell you is that the U.S. spends $7 trillion annually on socialist-style programs—that’s where most of the overpayments come from. $3 trillion isn’t a rounding error. It’s a governing error. That’s not just waste. It’s systematic government failure. The GAO says this has been a government-wide problem for years. Washington’s biggest growth industry is fraud and overpayments. This is abuse of U.S. taxpayers.