The White House has unveiled a Spider-Man-themed fraud tracker featuring President Donald Trump in a pixelated superhero pose. The interactive map lets users click on federal agencies across Washington, D.C. This is to view alleged fraud figures the administration claims to have uncovered.
Donald Trump’s White House is using Spider-Man imagery to promote its new Fraud.gov tracker
The White House announced the launch with a post reading, “A new friendly neighborhood fraud tracker, tracking all the fraud we’ve webbed up.” The map presents agency-by-agency breakdowns of alleged misuse of funds.
The tracker claims the administration has identified $229.9 billion in misused funds but admits it “stopped” only $56.4 billion. Officials attribute the numbers to “fraud, waste, and corruption identified by the Trump Administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud since January 2025.” That task force did not officially launch until March 2026.
For example, the Department of Agriculture section asserts the White House uncovered $6.7 million in fraud, stopped $507.9 million, and enforced $3 million in fraud. Other agencies receive similar treatment across the map.
Donald Trump’s administration has made waste, fraud, and abuse a central political focus, and is now using Spider-Man IP for the same. The effort began with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which first targeted $2 trillion in federal fraud. Musk later lowered that goal to $1 trillion before projecting smaller savings. DOGE’s final update in January 2026 reported $215 billion in savings.
DOGE’s cuts led to roughly 300,000 federal workers losing jobs across 27 agencies. Courts later ordered tens of thousands rehired with back pay after ruling the firings unlawful. A U.S. Government Accountability report found about $110 billion of DOGE’s claimed savings came from contracts, grants, and leases. It also found DOGE overstated terminated contracts by nearly 2,000, representing about $27.4 billion in contracts that were not actually canceled.
After DOGE fell apart amid a public feud between Musk and Trump, the administration appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead the anti-fraud push. Vance met with Trump officials in March after Trump signed an executive order creating the new task force. The White House has since published a list of entities it canceled over apparent fraud.
(Source: The Daily Beast)
