The report aired Sunday evening and included interviews with Bryan Vorndran, the head of the FBI's cyber division, as well as fraud expert Linda Miller, who worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

'They begin buying stolen identities so that they can begin applying for disaster loans, disaster grants, on behalf of stolen identities.'

Miller said she was glad to see that tech billionaire Elon Musk, who headed up DOGE, was making the issue of fraud such a public issue.

"To be honest, Elon Musk coming out and saying, 'There is a huge amount of fraud,' I welcome that message completely because finally, someone is actually saying this," she said.

She said that much of the fraud was from foreign state actors, mostly from Russia and China. She estimated that the total amount of federal money lost through fraud every year was between $550 billion and $750 billion, and is nearing a trillion.

"What we're really talking about is nation-state actors," she said. "We're talking about organized crime rings. We're talking about using vast amounts of stolen Americans' identities to monetize them for, you know, criminal activity."

Among the more astounding claims was that nearly every American's Social Security number and other private information were available for purchase on the dark web.

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