WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance convened the first meeting of the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force on March 27 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with a commitment to root out waste, fraud, and abuse nationwide using a coordinated, multi-agency approach.
“We’re going to take a whole-of-government approach,” Vance said during opening remarks.
“What we’re going to actually do is force the bureaucracy to take this seriously and work together as political principles to make sure that we stop allowing fraudsters to steal the American people’s money.”
Widespread abuse of government programs and benefits is costing taxpayers billions of dollars annually and limiting access to resources, according to the vice president....