Vice President JD Vance launches the Trump administration fraud taskforce effort.
In addition to Vice President Vance, the roundtable kickoff includes: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, U.S. Asst. Attorney General for Fraud Colin McDonald, HHS Secretary RFK Jr., DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Veterans Administration Secretary Doug Collins, HUD Secretary Scott Turner, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, OMB Director Russ Vought, CMS’ Deputy Administrator Kim Brandt and Dept of Labor IG Anthony D’Esposito. WATCH:
According to an internal memo reviewed by The Daily Wire, the task force begins by telling all the various government agencies involved in the process: “We cannot litigate ourselves out of the fraud problem,” the memo states. “Research findings show over 1,000,000 suspicious Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and more than 2,000 suspicious durable medical equipment (DME) companies. The federal government simply does not have the resources necessary to recover all of the money lost to fraud once it has been paid out. Many fraudsters are judgment proof and therefore could not pay back the money they stole even after a successful prosecution.”
The memo identifies a handful of “high-spend, low-verification” programs that will be targeted: Medicare and Medicaid ($2 trillion a year in spending), Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance ($43.5 billion a year), Department of Agriculture’s SNAP program ($101 billion a year), Health and Human Services’ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ($16 billion a year), Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rental Assistance / Public Housing ($64 billion a year), and the Small Business Administration loans and assistance ($104 billion a year). (source)
If a naturalized citizen is convicted of fraud, they should be denaturalized and deported.
Any citizen naturalized during the Obama or Biden regimes should have their citizenship re-evaluated, we know they were just shoveling people through the system without proper checks.
“The Religion of Pieces” GWB was not any better.
The family is a part of the Deep State!
One of Tucker’s really good recent points was that on 9/11 there were hardly any radical islamists in the United States. Then we went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, ostensibly to defeat the threat abroad so that we wouldn’t eventually have to fight that theat here on our soil.
Somehow in that process we managed to import MILLIONS of radical Islamists into the US as “refugees” of that war.
We brought them here WHY?
So now it’s 25 years later and they are ALL OVER THE PLACE IN LARGE NUMBERS, EVERYWHERE, and they seem like they want to fight us. But they are OVER HERE NOW.
The “eventuality” the WHOLE THING was supposed to prevent, is now upon us.
What, again, was the point of doing that?
Tucker is selling his typical poorly informed nonsense.
Doesn’t he remember the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993? Sirhan Sirhan? The assassination of Meir Kahane?
(* technically Sirhan Sirhan was supposedly from a Christian Palestinian family. But his motivations were pro-Palestine, anti-Israel. That makes him culturally more Islamic.)
There were far fewer Muslims in the USA prior to 9/11, therefore fewer attacks. But there have been Islamic terrorists in the USA as long as there have been Muslims in the USA.
Tucker is not poorly informed. We import huge numbers of people from the regions we wage war in. I can’t begin to count all the Bosnians and Serbians flooded into trucking here after the bombing and peace keeping mission in the former Yugoslavia. Then came the Middle Eastern Muslims and the Somalians.
That was/is the plan.
I don’t think the naturalization process was any better under Trump 1 either – same Deep state corruption as under Obummer and Autopen.
Instead Democrats bring them to the SOTU.
ANY Naturalization should be considered a “probationary citizenship.”
Probationary for life, with no statute of limitations
top of list…Rep. Omar…high profile and will definitely send a strong message.
Potentially has the only three years to try to clean it up so I hope they go balls to the wall and not assume the R’s will win in 2028!
Yes, and I say go balls to the wall to make sure that the R’s win in 2026 and 2028. Lots of work yet to be done! MAGA!
To put a different spin on this start by VP Vance … the checkered flag for the race to July 2027 was dropped with this meeting.
Secretary of State and NSA Rubio has a nationally critical job in the public eye and was given a head start.
Now VP Vance has his nationally critical job in the public eye … in my opinion VP Vance just recently told President Trump he wants to run for office. VP Vance is also operating vs the back drop of VP Mike Pence … giving him incentive to actually execute his mission.
This effort is aimed directly at the abuse of Federal Grants and the Federal Grant Process with respect to the States. This also counters potential democrat efforts to elevate their political fortunes and candidates via claiming to conduct their own “clean-up and reform efforts” within the confines of US Federal Money and States’ use of Federal Money.
The Intel Community will be handled by the ODNI.
The Department of War will be handled by Secretary of War Hegseth.
Any other arrangement undercuts the ODNI and Secretary of War.
The redistribution of Federal tax payments you call the grant process, ought to be entirely dismantled. The Feds think they have an endless Pot o’ Gold and the States do too. We The Taxpayers should demand repeal of the Federal Income tax, the end of grants to States, and elimination of Federal employees that “administered” all of it.
Is the Federal Dept of Education syndicate still around?
Linda McMahon is in process of dismantling the propaganda pushers at DOE.
Go after the Title 1 money, and if successful, you will see the NEA folks
head for the hills. All the anti Trump narrative they push so heavy is due
to them being a particular honeypot for any and all things democrat.
I did not see Community Development Block Grants, or Title 1 free lunches mentioned.
There are Islands of proper spending among oceans of waste in those 2 alone.
I don’t mind that this is something he can use running for president. But it is also good to have the VP involved with his role as president of the senate. In order for this to be permanently successful they need to change laws to add verifications and enforcement power.
No argument that this will be good for the US as well. Allot of motivation for the VP to perform and deliver.
Yes, he’s been given an opportunity to prove to all of us his ability to solve one of our nations worse cancers, pray God gives him the strength to accomplish it.
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1,000,000 suspicious Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and more than 2,000 suspicious durable medical equipment (DME) companies. The federal government simply does not have the resources necessary to recover all of the money lost to fraud once it has been paid out
now. if 30,000,000 brave patriots stopped paying taxes simultaneously, we’d have our country back in no time at all.
No, we would have 30,000,000 convictions. The Government would find the “resources”!
Fear.
Left out 78,000 IRS agents. Re purpose them, train them, and incentivize them.
The ones that help bring the most fraud to light get some bitchin’ compensation.
Yes, i understand the importance of detection & going forward thats the goal but I cannot accept that we leave behind (just move on) what has already occurred.
If we must accept that in most cases the 💰 is gone & not retrievable why do we have to accept that the crimes aren’t prosecutable?
Prioritize by value if necessary. Delegate prosecutions to the states if possible, staff up the new AAG & get to work!
If the programs are ended then they eliminate all fraud
We are discussing CONgress. I refuse to pretend that unicorns 💨 fairy dust.
Care to join?
I am awaiting the focus on the thousands money laundering NGO — the funders and the beneficiaries.
Great to see Stephen Miller spotlighting fraud in blue states, and in Minnesota in particular:
“…all of our systems were set up and established for a high-trust society. I think that most citizens probably assume that there is some verification process that takes place for the receipt of most federal benefits. The reality is, is that there is not, this is particularly true in blue states, willfully true in blue states, in which all of these programs are operated entirely on the honor system, no verification takes place before individuals are enrolled and and are receive these benefits.
“So as a simple example, if you’re a Somali refugee living in Minnesota, you could lie about how many children you have, you could lie about what your immigration status is, you could lie about your marital status, you could lie about child care, you could lie about disability, you could lie about all these things and many more, and nobody in the state of Minnesota would validate any of these facts before writing you a check.
“We at the federal government are simply sent a bill from the state of Minnesota for the cost of providing these services in the aggregate….We do not know the names of any SNAP recipient in the state of Minnesota….We’ve asked the state repeatedly, and tried to compel the state unsuccessfully to turn over their SNAP enrollment rolls so we can ascertain such basic facts such as are these people even legally eligible to receive these benefits? And the state has refused, absolutely categorically refused, and in fact the state has spent millions of dollars in court, for the singular purpose of trying to prevent the state from ascertaining the identity of a single SNAP recipient in the entire state of Minnesota.
“Think about what this does to public trust, social trust, people’s faith in the system. All right, imagine in the community, a working-class community in the Twin Cities, uh, say a native Minnesotan who works as a lineman, or works as a construction worker, works in any job that requires hard work, dedication, focus, who’s worried about his ability to support for and provide his family.
“And imagine he has a neighbor who is a Somali refugee who arrived two years ago and has a Mercedes and no financial stress and no worries at all in the entire world and never seems to ever go to work at all, because he just went to an office in the state, lied on a piece of paper, and got unlimited free money forever for life. That is the system that is being run, and that is the corruption that this task force under the leadership of the Vice President is going to demolish.”
The schools promise that the Somali’s children will do just as well in school as the lineman’s–and guess who pays for their free school breakfasts and lunches.
After graduation, the Somali’s children can go to a state college or university for free, while the linesman’s family doesn’t qualify, because his wife had to work so they could afford to buy a house in a “good school district”.
None of the trillions in Democrat welfare fraud is an accident or due to incompetence. It’s all deliberate! 🤔
This didn’t happen without complicit, quisling RepubliCONs.
We, obviously, have political, administrative, and accountability problems. Where does the Buck stop? Each area has a responsible person, none of which appear to “Attend to this Matter”.
Congress is responsible for oversight of every single penny.
The justification for setting up many of these programs under executive agencies was that Congress declared the issues involved to be “complex” and themselves too dumb to be able to comprehend.
The only reason this non-Constitional delegation of Legislative duty was allowed was that Congress was to maintain full oversight. With all of the readily apparent fraud it is readily apparent that Congress has not been fulfilling their oversight obligations.
Every living member of Congress, past and present, should be prosecuted for dereliction of duty and violation of their oath.
…………..Not to mention the legislative terrorism of not passing the Save America act.
jared kushner needs to be on this task force!!
https://thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/iran-war-we-follow-the-money-to-mar
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Here is a number to sit with: $2,000 per truckload.
That’s the fee a little-known Florida company called Gothams LLC — the same firm that ran the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center — wants to charge for every single humanitarian aid truck entering a conflict zone under American control. Commercial trucks? $12,000 each. The contract they pitched to the White House demands a seven-year monopoly on all trucking and logistics, with a guaranteed 300% return on capital expenditure. Federal contracting experts called it “highway robbery.” The White House claimed the proposal was shelved. Records show Gothams partners were still coordinating with administration officials as recently as early 2026.
This is the Iran war.
Not the one you’re being told about — the one wrapped in flags and “national security” and solemn talk of nuclear threats. That war exists too, of course. But beneath it runs a parallel architecture, a financial machinery so brazen in its design that it makes the Iraq-era Halliburton contracts look quaint by comparison. In this war, every cabinet member has a financial stake. Every bomb dropped is a live-fire sales demo. Every barrel of Iranian crude pulled off the global market is a windfall for a politically connected fracking company in Texas. And when the rubble settles, the people carving up the reconstruction aren’t diplomats — they’re real estate billionaires pitching luxury hotels and artificial islands to sovereign wealth funds in Riyadh.
This isn’t a byproduct of the conflict. It is the conflict.
The Seeds of War
Before following the money, it’s worth understanding how this began.
Approximately 70% of Trump’s cabinet and more than 50 government officials have direct prior roles with the Heritage Foundation or its Project 2025 partner groups. That is not a statistic that gets enough attention. The Heritage Foundation — through Project 2025 and the subsequent “Project 2026” — didn’t just publish a policy wish list. It built a personnel pipeline that placed hundreds of vetted loyalists into the federal bureaucracy, each one committed to a specific task: centralize executive power, dismantle regulatory oversight, and an “America First” foreign policy that treats military force as the default instrument of statecraft.
The Iran war is what that pipeline was built to produce. Discussions began with Colin Powel addressing Heritage in 2018 and actionable “maximum pressure” policy was drawn up in 2022-2023.
For decades, Heritage has advocated for the destruction of the Iran nuclear deal, for “maximum pressure” campaigns, and for the explicit position that the Iranian regime cannot be negotiated with — only confronted. Their scholars have called the current moment a “golden window of opportunity.” Their policy papers called for “sustained operations involving weeks of bombing.” Their Sentinel Action Fund — a Super PAC — lobbied for the exact defense appropriations now funding the carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf.
This was not a reaction to events. It was a strategy waiting for the right President and the opportunity to execute it. And the personnel is now in place — not just ideologues, but billionaires with portfolios that rise and fall with every decision they make from inside the government.
Which brings us to the money.
The Pentagon as a Private Equity Portfolio: Stephen Feinberg
The Department of Defense now officially goes by a secondary title: the “Department of War.” The name change is telling, but the real transformation is structural in a financial sense.
At the center of it sits Stephen Feinberg, co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management — a private equity firm with approximately $70 billion dollars in assets — who serves as the Deputy Secretary of Defense. While Pete Hegseth plays the role of ideological figurehead, talking “warrior ethos” to the cameras, Feinberg is the one actually running the Pentagon’s $900 billion-plus budget. He manages it, according to observers, with the “terrifyingly intense scrutiny” of a corporate turnaround specialist. Which is exactly what he is.
Feinberg signed an ethics agreement to divest his Cerberus interests. Then he didn’t. He maintained financial ties to the firm through administrative service contracts for accounting and tax compliance — contracts he claimed were “impossible” to transition to an outside provider. That’s a convenient “impossibility” when your “former” firm’s portfolio is a direct beneficiary of the war you’re helping run.
Sounds like this was written by a Democrat.
“Judgement proof”? WTH is that? Like to big to fail? Do they have a get out of jail card? Bet not. Incarcerate them.
It means the $$$ was squandered on wine, women and song. It’s all gone the minute the federal check clears!
And bypass the local judges in the blue districts by charging them with federal crimes.
Reminds me of the border policy: stop the bad things from happening, first, and deal with the bad things that have already happened, second.
I can totally understand this as a straight-up bull-by-the-horns cost-effective strategy. Yes, I yearn for justice, punishment, retribution, reparation. I do approve of resources directed at that. But just stopping the bad things cold gets you the best bang for your buck as a taxpayer reamed out by mass fraud.
Perfect analogy to slamming the border closed first thing after 47’s inauguration.
Common sense. Put out the fire before attempting to deal with the water damage from the hoses.
On a constructive level I would like to see;
#1: An outline breaking down what, how, where and when the investigation will be conducted
#2: At least a monthly report as to the specific results to date
American (legal) citizens deserve to be in the loop regarding this investigation since it is OUR money being fraudulently used!
I demand that this be done even before there is judicial action taken against fraudsters!
“I demand that this be done”… Ha-Ha, you sound just like a district court justice!
Just got enamored with Mike Urban’s discussion of Leah Foley’s indictment regarding Massachusetts benefits fraud generally and Democrat Maura Healey’s benefits fraud specifically. Seems this is part of a larger federal government anti-benefits fraud thrust.
This comes off more as VP Harris taking over Border Security under Biden.
I’d prefer more action and prosecution than press conferences, committee and task force’s announcements and endless talking points.
I wonder if any VP assignment in history ever amounted to anything.
Well Pence showed everyone how to be a backstabbing traitor.
Some convictions would be nice
Prosecutions are ongoing. Somalians have been pleading guilty… Thus convictions are already taking place.
Any State that will not supply information on the people receiving Federal welfare in that State, 0 dollars to that State.
And forget ignore laugh at the Judges who says you have to pay the money, as a matter of fact look into the court system for fraud and corruption and if found defund the court system as well. My gut is telling me our whole system is running on criminal corruption, aka. mafia rules.
Has been running like that for a long time.
Congress could not be even be bothered to maintain pretenses of normal budgetary processes since at least 2008. Money for every bailout and crisis that simply keeps getting rolled over every time and added to the baseline without further accounting. Literal mountains of unaccounted for cash that unsurprisingly disappears down millions of rat holes.
Defrauding money from the American People should be considered an act of treason. Everyone, including every member of Congress, should be immediately arrested and held until they can be indicted, tried, and convicted. Same process as for 1/6 “insurrectionists”.
“IT’S OFFICIAL: JD Vance’s White House fraud task force is TARGETING Ilhan Omar for committing immigration fraud”…..
How come Ilhan Omar isn’t being given the George Santos treatment of being expelled from Congress?
She probably shares her pirate booty.
(read that any way you like… be creative)
Yuck!
Demoncraps do not police their vultures.
They promote them.
i didn’t look far enough down, i posted this too. I gave some color too
From another perspective (re DHS funding except Ice/Border Patrol)….
Hopefully it turns out this way….
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Excerpt:
The only thing they secured was no funding for CBP & ICE, which are largely already funded via the OBBB, and Republicans will seek to fund them even further without Dem votes in reconciliation instead.
As for the Dem’s demand list on ICE reforms?
“That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”
Cont….
Its a big loss for R’s. No other way to slice it. Thune should not even return from his vaca. Just stay gone.
This is LATE!
From the MOMENT Musk declared his time leading DOGE was done, someone in the administration should have picked that right up as a team which included prosecutors. Why they waited so long? Can’t say but it speaks to what they think is actually important. This, while an amazingly worthy endeavor (though ultimately temporary if legislation is created which PUNISHES attempts to re-establish this kind of corruption) isn’t being given the fullest attention needed. So the timing of this suggests “distraction” or “appeasement.”
Personally, I want to see Iran’s government ended and the new nation of Persia created with a VERY “US=like” constitution to carry on the tradition of what proper “nation building” should look like. (When the US occupied Japan and established their government for them, they were given a parliamentary system and a constitution disarmed the people… that’s sick and disgusting… I understand why they did it — while US military occupied Japan, it wouldn’t do to have the people become armed… anyway) I don’t “like” that this is happening, but I feel the NECESSITY of it as well. (And by the way, need to do my taxes and visit the dentist again…) But there is a “campaign” of anti-maga trying to tear down Trump and MAGA. And it all seems to be a division based on Israel’s government and its relationship with the US government. (Why is Israel attacking Lebanon again? Some of it doesn’t make sense to me.) I don’t think there should be an AIPAC when there is no EUPAC or UKPAC or any other such thing. The relationship feels one-sided to me. I’m open to other views to explore. I don’t enjoy having this view at all.
I like the initiative. I don’t like the delay in initiating it.
Frankly, our criminal Justice system has become toxic to justice and I would not subject any indictable cases to it. Rather, stand up a specific court that deals only with government fraud and corruption. Of course, you would need the cooperation of our nation’s corrupt congress, and that will be a problem too.
There is a further aspect to this fraud.
Many if not most of the people who illegally move to the US are from countries that are rife with fraud. There are foolish Americans who demand the sending of aid to these countries. However, they ignore what is happening for example in many African countries. In these, through waste, fraud and mismangement they lose far more from their internal income that they receive from all the foreign aid. If they got their own houses in order and managed their countries wisely they would not need this aid. No aid should given to any of them. They only need investment in well managed and productive companies that are working to benefit their fellow citizens.
“JD Vance Launches Fraud Taskforce”
Ahh, yes, the beginnings of another “thorough investigation”……………
Do we need a task force, or do we need competent prosecutors willing to convict the fraudsters?
Wow! JD basically saying, “Come git ya sum!”
Omar might be on the short bus. Vance has confirmed she did indeed commit immigration fraud. lets hope they posterize her to end the corruption
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/jd-vance-drops-bombshell-ilhan-omar-definitely-committed/
Vance confirmed his belief that Omar “definitely committed immigration fraud” during an interview on The Benny Show, released on Friday, and that the task force is looking into what can be done about it.
The VP added that the task force, which he leads, is working with senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller to determine the legal remedies available now that the fraud has been identified.
I missed earlier post on this, so sorry for the duplication.
Might be? She’s not that smart I’d that’s what you mean.
From our friends at TLD, recaps the above:
https://thelibertydaily.com/vance-says-white-house-plans-go-after-ilhan/
“Fraud” is a big ass lane with almost endless reach and possibilities. Many hands in the till. Like shootin’ fish in a barrel, or the swamp.
“We cannot litigate ourselves out of the fraud problem,”
Many fraudsters are judgment proof and therefore could not pay back the money they stole even after a successful prosecution.”
These statements remind me of Comey saying that no reasonable prosecutor would take up the case against Clinton.
Agree, they can’t repay, but they can sit in a nasty prison for a good period of time.
(oh, but yes THAT would just cost more money) S/
Stealing from the American People should be considered an act of treason. A few public hangings would be the best deterrent against future fraud. Even for members of Congress.
Dear JD, please hire the DOGE boys and girls and get after these programs. Halt payments to any entity that does not immediately respond with requested data.
And hire Data Republican.
JD goes after Omar for immigration fraud:
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/03/27/jd-vance-on-the-ilhan-omar-immigration-fraud-allegations-n2200713
I wonder if she is sweating yet? A few outlets are reporting it.
Any bets if current husband (number 3) will deport with her? LOL
Every journey begins with the first step. I am still waiting for that first step.
The following is a quote pulled from a piece on this task force launch published by The Post Millennial today.
“”The second thing is that we’re going to take a whole-of-government approach. So much of what’s going to make the anti-fraud task force work is that we’re communicating across different departments.””
My question would be: But what about all the silo impairment such action could cause???
~~~~snark~~~~
https://thepostmillennial.com/vance-holds-first-meeting-of-anti-fraud-task-force-to-protect-taxpayer-funds-from-exploitation
Stopped at my local McDonalds today, approached the door to a sign that says we accept SNAP (food stamp cards) wth is going on, pink sludge and grease all precooked food and I thought hhs/fda whoever was eliminated soft drinks and junk food? No I didn’t eat at McD’s either.
It’s not fraud it’s outright theft. Please stop trying to downplay it.
happiness is ..?? For me a Stephen Miller verbal take down.. now imagine one on a fraudster
Seriously, I could sit and listen to Stephan Miller read an old phone book and be totally captivated.
Thankfully some serious people on the task force.
Stephen Miller, RFK Jr., Russ Vought.
I read good things about Colin McDonald. Doug Collins sounds competent when I’ve heard him speak.
But they will need fresh, non-DC staff for the rank and file.
Can’t let swamp critters sabotage and drag their feet.
JD Vance is my next president.
The federal government simply does not have the resources necessary to recover all of the money lost to fraud once it has been paid out.
Leak the names to we the people and we will handle it!
Does this not tell the American public in BOLD, CAPITAL LETTERS that these orograms are either too large to be effectively policed and thus, need downsized, or are in dire need of wholesale revamping to prevent and eliminate future fraud?
Advice for Vance et al. Don’t get bogged down playing Whack a Mole with individual fraudsters. Go after the organized portion of the problem. This would include state and local officials, provider networks for Medicare and Medicaid and PPP recipients.
And those responsible for oversight at the federal level.
The easiest way to eliminate fraud is to eliminate the source. None of those programs should exist. Their purpose is to subsidize the weak and lazy. Let natural selection take its course. Country’ll grow.