Vice President JD Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, launched March 16, 2026, has quickly achieved results. Since March 25, it has identified and suspended over 221 suspicious hospice and home health providers in California, uncovering millions in fraud.
Federal arrests targeted a $50M+ LA healthcare scam. The DOL is probing California unemployment fraud, and HUD found $5B in payment errors, including to illegal aliens and the deceased. Vance held the first roundtable with cabinet officials, emphasizing the restoration of anti-fraud protections and inter-agency cooperation.
As part of the Trump administration’s promise to address endemic fraud, new appointments include Colin McDonald and Scott Brady as executive director. Officials highlight a whole-of-government approach to protect taxpayer dollars.
A Vance spokesperson said, “In just the last week, the Vice President’s task force to eliminate fraud has uncovered hundreds of fraudulently-run healthcare and hospice centers and exposed fraudsters who have ripped off American taxpayers to the tune of millions of dollars.”
The same source added, “This is exactly what the Task Force was created to do. We are thankful for all of the agencies’ efforts to enforce our whole-of-government approach to root out fraud and look forward to all the more that we’ll uncover,” the spokesperson added.
“As the task force to root out waste, fraud, and abuse ramps up its work, we expect this number to grow exponentially,” an anonymous source declared, “We expect this number to grow much, much higher in the coming week.”
A senior Trump official stated, “Our task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud,” Vance wrote in a post on X. “This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems.”
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Likewise, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the department “is holding states accountable for the rampant unemployment fraud that has occurred across the country,” and the vice president and task force are working to “protect” citizens’ tax dollars.
Building on this point, Scott Turner, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary, announced that his agency discovered “$5 billion in potential payment errors,” “illegal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded housing,” and “poor stewardship across the board.” He added that he looks “forward to rooting out fraud at HUD.”
Speaking directly, the Vice President said, “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. So we think fraud has been a problem for a long time,” adding, “It became a massive, massive problem under the Biden administration.”
“We’re gonna do a number of things. First of all, we’re gonna turn back on those anti-fraud protections, so that all these cabinet officials are looking at what’s going on and focusing on it,” he explained, “The second thing is that we’re going to take a whole government approach. So much of what’s going to make the anti-fraud task force work is we’re communicating across different departments.
Concluding his comments, he stated, “So when Bobby Kennedy is talking to Scott Bessent about things that he’s seeing in Medicare and Medicaid, when Scott is seeing things at Treasury, when Brooke [Rollins] is seeing things at agriculture, when Scott [Turner] is seeing things at Housing and Urban Development, what we’re going to actually do is force the bureaucracy to take this seriously and work together as political principals to make sure that we stop allowing fraudsters to steal the American people’s money.”
Watch Vance comment on working with Nick Shirley to combat fraud here: