Vance holds first meeting of a new anti-fraud task force targeting benefit programs

Vice President JD Vance has held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he’s leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it’s cracking down on potential misuse of social programs. Vance spoke Friday before the task force's closed-door meeting. The Republican vice president says the federal government for decades had not taken fraud seriously and it needed to be tackled with “a whole-government approach.” President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on fraud part of a chief domestic focus as voters have said they’re concerned about affordability ahead of November’s midterm elections. Vance cites allegations of fraud in Minnesota, whose Democratic governor says Trump wants to “punish blue states.”