Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday announced that the government had identified $42 million in fraud linked to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since September.

"On September 1, we began a surge against SNAP fraud — and in seven weeks, we’ve uncovered $42M in SNAP fraud, or enough to feed 220,000 Americans for an entire month," he said in a press conference.

SNAP receives just over $100 billion in federal funding per year, meaning the sum Blanche identified amounts to just under 0.5%.

The effort comes as part of an inter-agency crusade against public funds fraud led by Vice President JD Vance, whom Trump named his "fraud czar" earlier this year.

Vance appeared alongside Blanche for the press conference. Agency announcements of fraud crackdowns and criminal enforcement appear to have become more frequent in recent days, as the midterms enter their final stretch.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.