Vice President JD Vance is hosting the first meeting of the newly-formed White House fraud task force on Friday.
by CAITLYN FROLO | The National News DeskWASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a Fraud Task Force meeting in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House on March 27, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Vice President JD Vance held the Fraud Task Force Meeting with aims to reduce federal spending by identifying misuse of federal funds. Vance told attendees there have never been an administration that took fraud seriously, describing it as a massive problem under former President Joe Biden. "A lot of the anti-fraud protections that existed in our government for a very long time were actually turned off by the Biden administration," Vance explained. "We're going to turn back on those anti-fraud protections so that all of these Cabinet officials are looking at what's going on and focusing on it." The vice president said fraud is a theft of "critical services Americans rely on." He detailed an autism fraud scheme in Minneapolis as an example. You have families who need these services, who are unable to get them because people are getting rich," Vance explained. "Instead of making sure that autistic children and their families get access to these resources." At Friday's meeting, Vance was joined by the task force's Vice Chair and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Miller is a senior advisor on the task force. "Our work on this task force will be to develop comprehensive national strategy to combat the corruption of our federal benefits programs and to assist the Department of Justice and prosecuting those who have corrupted them," Ferguson said, describing the fraud crisis as existential.Imagine in the Twin Cities, a native Minnesotan who works as a lineman or a construction worker, who's worried about his ability to support his family. And then imagine he has a neighbor who’s a Somali refugee who arrived two years ago, and has a Mercedes, and no financial stress, and no worries at all, and never seems to ever go to work — because he just went to an office in the state, lied on a piece of paper, and got unlimited free money forever. That is the system that is being run. That is the corruption that this task force, under the leadership of , is going to demolish," Miller said. WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks during a Fraud Task Force meeting in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House on March 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. Vice President JD Vance held the Fraud Task Force Meeting with aims to reduce federal spending by identifying misuse of federal funds. "It is legislative terrorism, it is one of the greatest abominations that has ever occurred in the history of this country," Miller said. Other attendees at the roundtable included much of the Trump administration, including Anthony D'Esposito, Kelly Loeffler, Markwayne Mullin, Linda McMahon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Scott Turner, Russ Vought, Collin McDonald, Doug Collins, Scott Bessent, Brooke Rollins, and Kim Brandt. "The task force is an integral part of the Trump Administration’s effort to restore the vision of America as a high-trust society," a Vance spokesperson told NBC News. "Its work is already full steam ahead in rooting out the rampant waste, fraud and abuse across the country and finding the fraudsters who are robbing hard-working Americans." President Donald Trump announced the creation of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud during his State of the Union address in February andWASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks during a Fraud Task Force meeting in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House on March 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. Vice President JD Vance held the Fraud Task Force Meeting with aims to reduce federal spending by identifying misuse of federal funds. "What this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things," Vance explained at the signing event. "Stop the fraud of the American taxpayer, and make sure that the benefits that ought, by right, go to American citizens, go to American citizens, and not to fraudsters." Vance said halting payments and criminal prosecutions are two steps the order will facilitate when it comes to fighting fraud in the U.S.seemingly vacant daycare centers. He alleged that millions of taxpayer dollars were funding these daycare centers, meaning that fraud was being funded. Following the video going viral, investigations and hearings were launched in Minnesota about fraud.also states, "There is strong reason to believe similar vulnerabilities exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado, where insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud."One person was reportedly "heavily" entrapped following a multi-car crash Friday morning near Specktown Road in Williamstown, according to dispatch.Pennsylvania State Police confirmed the public is urged to avoid the 300 block of Gap Road in Strasburg Township.Several fire crews were called to the scene of a fire that broke out early Friday at Mountain Ridge Metals, according to dispatch.A vehicle crashed into the front of a laundromat in Steelton Thursday night.3
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