Trump signs EO forming national fraud task force, with JD Vance in charge

Just the News ^ | 3/16/26 | Ben Whedon

[CFW]

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order forming a national task force to combat public fraud and placed Vice President JD Vance in charge of the effort.

"If we found half the fraud in this country... we would have a balanced budget," Trump insisted. He further joked that he expected Vance to take the role seriously and not merely accept a nominal post, pointing to his predecessor.

"This will not be like a Kamala," he said, referring to former Vice President Kamala Harris's tenure as border czar.

"I promise, sir," Vance replied.

Trump previously announced that Vance would head the task force. The post marks one of the first major dedicated assignments for the vice president of the administration.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruptionfraud; crime; eo; taskforce; theft; trump; vance

[CFW]

We really need to get the fraud out of our government. Government officials have basically opened the cash register and let their favorite voting groups just take what they want.

I hope the Vice-President does more than just form committees and prepare a mission statement. I know that there has been arrests and convictions for those in MN that committed the children's food program fraud. But, we need more arrests and convictions, including of those politicians that facilitated the fraud.

[Track9]

Or like smelly joe curing cancer.

[FrankRizzo890]

Has the judiciary weighed in on what JD can do yet?

[Wallace T.]

Why not bring Elon Musk back into DOGE?

[CFW]

Bringing back Elon would be good except for the fact that the left would start burning Tesla’s again. Each federal dept has a DOGE team so even though we don’t hear much from them, they are doing their jobs and cutting wasteful contracts.

Also.........

Trump today:

President Trump just instructed his new White House anti-fraud task force led by JD Vance to investigate Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar

“I hope this is part of it — she married her brother, supposedly! That means she’s here ILLEGALLY, I hope you or somebody is gonna be looking at it!”

“She’s one of the ringleaders here. She’s BAD NEWS for our country.”

[bigbob]

People have been very impressed with what Marco has accomplished and there’s already rumblings about 2028. This is JD’s chance to show what he can do.

[OL Hickory]

Bet you dollars to doughnuts
minnesota daycare is on the board BUT
welfare fraud in lakewood\jackson NJ

IS NOT!!! WONDER WHY?

[Liz]

A document wrt the Trump/Vance fraud order says “there is strong reason to believe vulnerabilities similar to Somalis’ rampant Minnesota fraud exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado———insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud.”

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Understatement of the Year.

[pepsi_junkie]

There was a time when the Senate did stuff like this. Senator Harry Truman made his name as the war production fraud buster while he was in the Senate, and that led him straight to VP and ultimately POTUS.

But that was before they were the ones executing the fraud.

[Candor7]

Well all the fraud would stop if Vance just used the same Obama remedy that was employed with Seth Rich and Lt. Quarles Harris Jr.

[Karl Spooner]

In other words Vance got Tulsi'ed out there when he wasn't a big hit with Trump and his inner circle of warmongers on Iran.

AI overview:

[griswold3]

*Sigh*. I had such high hopes for DOGE. Go get ‘em, JD. (PS Don’t let him handle any trophies 🏆)

[mythenjoseph]

Vance should use this position to rape the NGO.s of any monies crippling the fraud while making a great name for a potential 2028 Presidential run....I hope he applies himself and starts knocking the debt down. See how he applies himself I guess.