Vice President JD Vance described his role in addressing fraud in an interview on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”
“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. “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.”
He drew attention to government officials who have “gotten wealthy” from being complicit in the fraud.
“The American citizen was ripped off for people who shouldn’t be here, and by politicians who should have known better,” Vance condemned.
“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.”
Vance’s comments follow President Trump declaring during the State of the Union that Vance will lead the “war on fraud.”
“He’ll get it done,” Trump said. “And if we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.”
Vance stated during a January White House press briefing that the Trump administration is developing a new position to address fraud nationwide.
“We know that the fraud isn’t just happening in Minneapolis; it’s also happening in states like Ohio. It’s happening in states like California,” Vance explained. “What we’re doing in order to help coordinate this remarkable interagency effort from the Trump administration, but also to make sure that we prosecute the bad guys, and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible, is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.”
