Todd Blanch

And if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that's an honor.

If he chooses to nominate me, that's an honor.

If he chooses to nominate somebody else, and I go back to being the DAG, that's an honor.

If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, thank you very much.

I love you, sir.

So I don't have any goals or

aspirations beyond that.

Every day, Department of Justice investigators and prosecutors work to punish those who commit fraud.

For example, just this week, and it's only Tuesday, a criminal defendant was sentenced and the department obtained two additional guilty pleas in matters totaling over half a billion dollars in healthcare and COVID fraud.

If you think about that, just since yesterday, we had a guilty plea in a $160 million healthcare enrollment fraud scheme and a sentencing in a $100 million COVID-19 fraud.

So much money.

And a guilty plea in a $160 million healthcare fraud scheme as well.

Each of these cases represents countless hours of dedication from the prosecutors and the federal agents and local law enforcement who work them.

The Department of Justice is holding criminals accountable for stealing over half a billion dollars from taxpayers.

And across our U.S.

Attorney's offices, all over this country, we currently have over 8,000 fraud matters underway.

Unfortunately, as you've heard a lot about recently, because it's true, these cases represent a fraction of the fraud ripping off our country every day.

Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, this department, working closely with the task force to eliminate fraud, is supercharging efforts to take down every fraudster and bring them to justice.

When we talk about ending weaponization, as if that's a bad thing for us to do.

People in this room, people in this room for four years, some of you, same people, sat here with the last administration when you saw a weaponization of this department, the likes of which had never been seen in history.