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Trump task force is tackling $250 billion in government fraud. It’s just getting started

Anti-fraud effort has executed search warrants, secured prison sentences and kicked 800 questionable providers from Medicare

By Andrew Kolvet Fox News

Published May 21, 2026 5:00am EDT

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JD Vance details efforts to combat rampant fraud across US

Vice President JD Vance discusses the rampant fraud across U.S. government programs and details the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force's findings, including billions in fraudulent contracts and benefits paid to deceased.

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For years, the American government failed to protect its citizens from fraudsters, and instead let people, often foreign-born immigrants from the developing world, take advantage of this nation’s generous spirit and bleed its taxpayers dry. Thanks to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, the American people are learning in real-time that we don’t have to accept this. Like all anti-civilizational forces, putting up with fraudsters fleecing the American taxpayer is a choice. We choose "no more," and the president’s new Anti-Fraud Taskforce is our instrument of justice.

Vance, vice chair of the Anti-Fraud Taskforce, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, are leading an unprecedented whole-of-government effort in the war against fraud. Unlike the Biden administration, Vance has warned that no amount of fraud is too small to prosecute, saying, "We [did] not prosecute fraud in this country if it’s under $1.5 million dollars per year." How absurd and insulting is that? The average lifetime tax contribution of one U.S. citizen is approximately $500,000. Before the task........

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