At the behest of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance is now in charge of a whole-of-government operation to do battle with fraudsters who have stolen billions of American taxpayer dollars and sapped programs many downtrodden citizens need. The new effort, the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, has been hard at work already in 2026.
Not long after discovering major fraud going down in the state of Minnesota, the task force, working alongside the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), slapped a big “halt” sign on a total of $250 million in Medicaid funding that was headed for the state. “People are billing the government millions, tens of millions, billions of dollars, saying they are providing a service, but there’s no actual confirmation,” Vance said.
In just a little over three months, Vance and his team have “uncovered tens of billions of dollars in defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted dozens of fraudsters, and stopped billions in suspicious payments,” according to the vice president. Vance then told the American people, “we’re just getting started.” He was telling the truth.
According to a report from The Daily Caller, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for CMS, said that the agency had identified a shocking total of 800 suspected fraudulent hospice providers and home health care services in Los Angeles, California. Not the whole state, just in Los Angeles. The fraudulent operations resulted in over $1.4 billion in fraud payments.
When CMS cut off the 800 providers, only 20 of them even tried to contest the action. “Unbelievable. So at least 780 are not even trying to claim that they’re not fraudulent,” Vance said during a press conference. “It’s just completely insane.” The task force suspects this level of fraud exists throughout the United States. In order to shut it all down, CMS is now implementing a nationwide six-month moratorium on all new hospice and home health care facilities.
The report also revealed that the task force penned letters to all 50 states, demanding they prove they are correctly and effectively prosecuting Medicaid fraud. States that refuse to comply with the requirements risk potentially losing federal tax dollars. A few states are putting in real effort to eliminate the problem. Texas Unit indicted almost 200 defendants in 2025.
Hawaii is on the other side of the spectrum, failing to indict a single fraudster over the last four years, which is crazy as the state spent almost $12 billion on Medicaid during that time period. “Last month, the task force, alongside the General Services Administration, identified nearly $6.3 billion in government contracts going to potentially fraudulent businesses,” the report said.
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“The Small Business Administration (SBA) referred 562,000 fraudulent loans, totaling over $22 billion, to the Treasury for collections – the largest referral in SBA history. Making the discovery even more outrageous, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler revealed that the former Biden-era SBA knew about the rampant alleged fraud but refused to take action,” it added.
President Trump has provided Vance with all of the tools necessary to complete his mission. The National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Justice Department was officially launched in April 2026. The division, led by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, demonstrates how seriously Trump and Vance are about cracking down on fraud, as McDonald reports directly to the vice president.