President Trump’s administration just took a hard look at who was actually enrolled in Obamacare, and the numbers are ugly. According to a new report, nearly 3 million people have already been kicked off the Affordable Care Act rolls as fraudulent enrollees. And the cleanup is far from over. Fox News Digital reported on June 26, 2026 that the Trump administration’s HHS uncovered millions of alleged fraudsters on the ACA marketplace rolls, with an estimated $10 billion in Obamacare fraud tied to the mess. Fox reported that nearly 3 million fraudulent enrollees have already been removed, with another 2.6 million flagged as still left to go under the current review. The report estimated that improper, phantom, and fraudulent enrollment peaked at 5.6 million people in 2025, before the current verification push began clearing the rolls. Of the 2.6 million improper or phantom enrollments still on the books, Fox reported that more than 1 million had no Social Security number attached at all. Read that again. More than a million enrollments without a Social Security number. Here is the part that should make every taxpayer sit up. Fox reported that the anti-fraud review came after Obamacare enrollment exploded during the Biden years, jumping from about 10 million at the start of Biden’s term to a 22 million peak in 2024. That is a massive jump in a few short years. Now the Trump administration is saying a large share of that surge was never legitimate to begin with. The official message from health leadership has been blunt about it. BIG NEWS: The Trump Administration is engaging in the largest health care fraud crackdown in American history. pic.twitter.com/d3Glas8ukw — HHS Rapid Response (@HHSResponse) June 25, 2026 So how did the administration find the fraud? By turning the verification controls back on. Fox reported that the Trump team restored income verification, ended certain special enrollment opportunities, checked for duplicate Medicaid enrollment, and investigated phantom enrollments tied to scamming brokers. The official policy backbone comes from CMS. CMS finalized a Marketplace Integrity and Affordability rule aimed at stopping improper enrollments and unauthorized changes to people’s coverage. The agency said the rule strengthened income verification, eligibility redetermination, and pre-enrollment checks for special enrollment periods. It also tightened broker and web-broker accountability, the same lane tied to the phantom-enrollment problem. CMS pointed directly at the COVID-era expanded premium subsidies, saying those temporary, fully subsidized plans may have created the conditions that bad actors exploited to grab coverage they did not qualify for. The agency said some of these measures are temporary fixes aimed at tamping down improper enrollments and the improper flow of federal dollars. In a related release, CMS said American taxpayers deserve to know their dollars go only to people who actually qualify, and Dr. Mehmet Oz tied the rule to cracking down on abuse. That theme has carried through the broader fraud push. 455 fraudsters DETAINED. $6.5 BILLION in false claims. $127 MILLION assets seized by our @WHFraudTF partners. No longer will champagne and private jets be paid for by the American taxpayer. The War on Fraud continues. pic.twitter.com/4CiWuIs0ym — DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) June 25, 2026 Independent analysts have been warning about this for a while. The Paragon Institute estimated in June 2026 that roughly 6.2 million exchange enrollees in 2026 were improperly enrolled, about 27% of total exchange enrollment. Paragon put the potential taxpayer cost as high as $25 billion, and said the pattern spans multiple years. The group previously estimated 5.0 million improper enrollees in 2024 and 6.5 million in 2025. Paragon connected the problem to fully subsidized plans, broker incentives, weak verification, and phantom enrollees who exist mostly on paper. Its analysis argues that the structure rewards enrollment volume while placing less pressure on proving the enrollment is real. The reason this hits taxpayers so hard is how the money moves. Paragon noted that ACA exchange subsidies are advanced directly to insurers, so when excessive subsidies are paid out, taxpayers may never recover the full overpayment. In plain English, the cash goes out the door first and the questions come later. The administration is framing all of this as a win for people who pay the bills. WINNING The days of ignoring fraud and wasting taxpayer money are over. @VP’s Fraud Task Force is ahead of the game and preventing money from ever getting in the hands of fraudsters. https://t.co/3AQXwKW825 — White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud (@WHFraudTF) June 26, 2026 Strip away the policy jargon and the story is simple. A program doubled in size while the basic guardrails were switched off, and now that they have been switched back on, millions of enrollments cannot survive a verification check. Nearly 3 million already gone, another 2.6 million flagged, and over a million of those with no Social Security number to their name. This is what happens when somebody finally checks the receipts. The Trump administration is checking them, and the taxpayers footing the bill are the ones who win when the phantom names come off the rolls. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. 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