The Vice President tapped by Trump to target Medicaid abuse and fraudulent daycare centers.
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J.D. Vance is on a mission: to make war against fraud.
Vice President JD Vance described his role in the administration’s newly declared “war on fraud” Wednesday, after President Donald Trump announced the effort during his State of the Union address.
“I don’t know what the top line number is, and I think that’s unfortunate, that nobody has ever tried to take a systematic look at how much fraud there is in the federal government,” Vance said on “America’s Newsroom,” according to Fox News.
“How many illegal aliens are on Medicaid? We know that it’s billions and billions of dollars that should go to American citizens. It’s going to illegal aliens. How many fraudulent daycare centers have been set up where that money should go to American citizens to help their kids get into childcare? Instead, it’s being stolen from them by illegal aliens in our country…”
Vance said he is worried that some government officials may have “gotten wealthy” or have obtained campaign donations from fraud supporters by being “complicit” in the negligence.
🚨 JUST IN: VP JD Vance says no one has taken a “systematic look” at federal fraud and he’s done waiting.
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 25, 2026
He points to Medicaid and “billions and billions” allegedly going to illegal aliens instead of citizens.pic.twitter.com/oIlJNWEjxG
Vance shared his outline with Fox News, which entails that the president has given him the task of taking a “full, whole government approach” to probing fraud concerns, recruiting the Justice and Treasury Departments to lead investigations and locate fiscal records.
“We’re going to be trying to understand how it is that the American people have been defrauded. How is it that people have used resources and programs that should go to American citizens instead have been going to fraudulent uses?” Vance said.
“There’s a whole host of tools that we have that have never been used, and the president and I talked about this a couple of months ago and said, ‘What if we just did everything that we could to stop the fraud that’s being committed against the American taxpayer?’ The president said, ‘Great idea, let’s do it,’ and we’re going to work on that very aggressively over the next year.”
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