Vance Fraud

From left, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Vice President JD Vance and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller attend the first meeting of the newly formed national Task Force to Eliminate Fraud in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2026.

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Vance holds first meeting of a new anti-fraud task force targeting benefit programs

Vance holds first meeting of a new anti-fraud task force targeting benefit programs

Vice President JD Vance has held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he’s leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it’s cracking down on potential misuse of social programs. Vance spoke on Friday before the task force's closed-door meeting. The Republican vice president says the federal government for decades had not taken fraud seriously and it needed to be tackled with “a whole-government approach.” President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on fraud a chief domestic focus as voters have expressed concern about affordability ahead of November’s midterm elections. Vance cites allegations of fraud in Minnesota, whose Democratic governor says Trump wants to “punish blue states.”