Vice President JD Vance hosted the inaugural meeting of the newly formed White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud on Friday, convening senior administration officials to outline a national strategy targeting what the administration describes as widespread abuse of federal benefits programs.
Vance used the meeting to argue that anti-fraud protections had been weakened under the previous administration. “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 said. “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.” He described fraud as a theft of critical services, citing an autism benefits scheme in Minneapolis as an example. “You have families who need these services, who are unable to get them because people are getting rich,” he said.
