Vice President JD Vance, Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Task Force Vice Chair, will hold a roundtable this afternoon with State Attorneys General to discuss the Trump Administration’s nationwide crackdown on federal benefits fraud.
In March, President Trump tasked the Vice President with leading the White House’s Fraud Task Force and investigations into schemes to defraud the federal government through welfare programs and immigration.
“The Task Force will coordinate measures to improve eligibility verification, implement pre-payment controls, detect high-risk fraud trends, and disrupt and dismantle fraud networks and the mechanisms through which fraud is committed,” according to Trump’s Executive Order establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
Over a dozen Republican Attorneys General are expected to be at the event.
However, the Democrats angrily refused to attend because they had not received advance notice. According to sources familiar with the matter, Democratic Attorneys General received an invite to the event on Friday with a Saturday deadline to RSVP, Politico reports.
Republicans received invitations a week prior, but Vance later insisted that Democrats be invited.
Per Politico:
The event was originally planned to include only Republican attorneys general but it was later decided to invite Democrats as well at Vance’s insistence, the person said.
A group of Democratic attorneys general sent a joint letter to Vance on Monday evening declining his invitation to the event, noting that it “was provided with less than one business day’s notice with no agenda.”
“This short notice does not match the spirit of collaboration that has long defined our joint efforts with federal partners,” they wrote.
Ahead of the meeting, Vance’s office highlighted the actions taken to date in a press release.
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February 25, 2026: The Trump Administration halted nearly $260 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over rampant fraud allegations, demanding full cooperation with federal investigators.
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March 19, 2026: Federal prosecutors charged 11 individuals in a major real estate and loan fraud ring preying on elderly Americans in California.
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March 25, 2026: The Trump Administration suspended dozens of high-risk hospice and home health providers in the Los Angeles area.
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March 30, 2026: The Trump Administration launched a new national fraud whistleblower program to empower Americans to expose waste and abuse.
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April 2, 2026: The Trump Administration suspended hundreds additional high-risk hospice and home health providers across California.
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April 3, 2026: Federal prosecutors charged more than a dozen individuals in a $50 million hospice fraud scheme.
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April 7, 2026: The Department of Justice secured a guilty plea from a California fraudster accused of submitting $270 million in false reimbursement claims.
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April 8, 2026: The Department of Justice confirmed it has 8,000 active, ongoing fraud cases.
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April 8, 2026: The Task Force uncovered$6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts and immediately launched a sweeping investigation.
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April 15, 2026: The Trump Administration suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with estimated fraud exceeding $600 million.
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April 16, 2026: The Trump Administration served criminal warrants and administrative charges on 20 Minnesota businesses suspected of SNAP fraud.
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April 17, 2026: The Department of Justice announced its newly established National Fraud Enforcement Division took enforcement action in schemes totaling over $340 million in its first week alone.
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April 24, 2026: The Small Business Administration referred 562,000 fraudulent or delinquent pandemic-era loans — totaling $22 billion — for aggressive collection.
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April 28, 2026: The Department of Justice conducted targeted enforcement operations at nearly two dozen Minnesota childcare centers suspected of systemic fraud.
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April 30, 2026: The Department of Justice launched a West Coast Strike Force team targeting healthcare fraud across Arizona, Nevada, and northern California.
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April 30, 2026: The Trump Administration deferred an additional $91 million in federal Medicaid funds from non-cooperating Minnesota.
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May 12, 2026: The Trump Administration identified over 10,000 suspected fraud cases in immigration student work programs.
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May 13, 2026: The Trump Administration suspended $1.4 billion in home health and hospice funding nationwide.
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May 13, 2026: The Trump Administration deferred $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid reimbursements for California.
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May 13, 2026: The Trump Administration halted all new Medicare enrollments for hospice providers nationwide until the fraud crisis is brought under control.
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May 13, 2026: The Trump Administration launched audits of Medicaid Fraud Control Units in all 50 states.
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May 13, 2026: The Trump Administration blocked $60 million in fraudulent student loan applications in just the first month since deploying enhanced screening.
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May 20, 2026: The Department of Justice charged a Minneapolis daycare owner featured in Nick Shirley’s viral video.
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May 21, 2026: The Department of Justice expanded its Health Care Fraud Strike Force program, adding additional prosecutors to combat Medicaid fraud nationwide.
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May 21, 2026: The Department of Justice charged 15 individuals in a wide-ranging Minnesota healthcare fraud scheme — including the highest loss amount ever charged in a Medicaid case in the state and the largest autism fraud scheme ever prosecuted.
The roundtable is scheduled to begin at 2 pm ET.
Watch live below:
Jordan Conradson, formerly TGP’s Arizona correspondent, is currently on assignment in Washington DC. Jordan has played a critical role in exposing fraud and corruption in Arizona’s elections and elected officials. His reporting on election crimes in Maricopa County led to the resignation of one election official, and he was later banned from the Maricopa County press room for his courage in pursuit of the truth. TGP and Jordan finally gained access after suing Maricopa County, America’s fourth largest county, and winning at the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Conradson looks forward to bringing his aggressive style of journalism to the Swamp.
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