Vice President JD Vance gathered Trump administration bigwigs Friday for his first anti-fraud task force meeting — saying the team would reverse a more relaxed approach to verification of social services benefits.
“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,” said Vance, who chairs the task force, in brief introductory remarks before the meeting was closed to the press for further discussion.
“We think fraud has been a problem for a long time. It became a massive, massive problem under the Biden administration. First of all, we’re going to turn back on anti-fraud protections, so that all of these cabinet officials are looking at what’s going on and focusing on it.”
Attendees included HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House budget director Russ Vought, HUD Secretary Scott Turner, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler and VA Secretary Doug Collins.
