A new federal fraud office gets created, with no budget set.
S. 5457 — National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026 · Filed by Eric Schmitt (R-MO) · Introduced Sep 22, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates a new National Fraud Enforcement Division inside the Department of Justice. The President picks an Assistant Attorney General to lead it. The Senate must approve this pick. The office will coordinate how federal lawyers handle fraud cases. Workers in the office cannot do campaign work for parties.
Who it affects
The bill affects the Department of Justice and its lawyers. It may help people harmed by fraud. Only if the Attorney General gives the office money and staff will it work.
One thing to notice
The bill creates the office but does not say how much money it gets. It does not say how many workers it has or what cases it handles. The Attorney General decides all of that.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Sep 22, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 22, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- National Fraud Enforcement Division — A new office inside the Department of Justice that coordinates federal fraud cases.
- Assistant Attorney General — A top official in the Department of Justice, picked by the President and approved by the Senate.
- coordinate — To organize and work together on the same goal.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,319 characters) on Oct 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-10-20.
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