Trump Administration Plans Aggressive FCA Enforcement

At the Federal Bar Association's annual qui tam conference in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 20, 2025, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Commercial Litigation Branch, Michael Granston, said in a speech that the Trump administration has no plans to change DOJ's enforcement efforts under the False Claims Act (FCA).

"The department wants to make clear—consistent with the new administration's stated focus on achieving governmental efficiency and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse—that the department plans to continue to aggressively enforce the False Claims Act," Granston said.

Granston noted that FCA enforcement is a profitable enterprise for the country: federal government money spent fighting healthcare fraud between 2021 and 2023 was recouped nearly threefold. He also highlighted FCA enforcement's deterrent effect, citing an estimate that the government deters an additional $10 of fraud for every $1 it recovers through