Trump signs Executive Order establishing aniti-fraud Task Force led by JD Vance – Mar 16, 2026
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to establish an anti-fraud task force, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, to investigate and root out the massive fraud in federally funded welfare programs across the country.
Trump announced during his State of the Union speech last month that Vance would lead his administration’s “war on fraud.” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson will serve as the task force’s Vice Chairman.
Before signing the order, Trump hilariously vowed that Vance would “not be like a Kamala [Harris], where she was put in charge of the border.”
“Remember, Kamala was put in charge. She was the border Czar. She never went to the border. She never called any of the great Border Patrol, the Border Patrol testified, we never spoke to her in four years. And that was a disaster, but this is different, this is a different group of people,” Trump said.
This comes amid findings of billions of dollars stolen through Somali fraud schemes involving Minnesota daycare centers, which received national attention from investigative journalist Nick Shirley’s exposé late last year. It was also recently revealed that Somali fraudsters have transported nearly $1 billion in bulk cash through the Minneapolis airport alone to Somalia since 2024.
Trump highlighted Shirley’s reporting before signing the order, stating, “You saw where a young gentleman was going around and knocking on doors, and none of the nursing homes existed, none of the nurseries existed.”
He further slammed the Somali immigrant community, the main perpetrators of the fraud in Minnesota, and called out the Democratic Governor and Attorney General, as well as Somali Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, for being “complicit” in the scheme.
“This is not a Republican, Democrat thing. This is wherever it’s taking place. It seems that it’s usually in blue states. If it’s in a red state, we’re going there too,” Trump said. “If we found half of the fraud that’s taking place in this country, and I think you have a chance of doing that, we would have much more than a balanced budget. That’s the kind of numbers you’re talking about. The theft is incredible,” he continued, noting that Vance and Ferguson will get to the bottom of it and suggest policy changes to prevent fraud.
“As you stated in your State of the Union address, in light of widespread revelations of fraud in federally funded programs in states like Minnesota and California, this executive order in front of you will establish a new task force aimed at rooting out that fraud, returning potentially billions or tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars to the American taxpayer,” White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf explained. “This is going to launch a whole-of-government approach to rooting out the very serious problem of fraud in federally funded programs around the country.”
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Trump: This is a very big thing that we’re doing. It’s about fraud, having to do with all the fraud that’s taking place in our country. And we have two people that are extremely brilliant and just very talented, and they’re going to be put in charge…
As an example, again, you’ve been seeing it and seeing it pretty big in Minnesota, $19 billion dollars. But that’s only for one little aspect of the fraud. It’s $19 billion and California, as they say, is 10 times worse and other states are ten, and this is not a Republican, Democrat thing. This is wherever it’s taking place. It seems that it’s usually in blue states. If it’s in a red state, we’re going there too.
But it seems that it’s heavily, heavily, heavily Democrat, and what they’ve done is so, so sad. When you look at the Minnesota scam, a lot of it has to do with Somalia. Nobody’s calling out anybody, but a lot of it has to do, but it’s Somalia and plenty of others. And I believe the governor is complicit, I believe Ilhan Omar is complicit, I believe that your attorney general is complicit. And if they are, you’re going to hopefully find out about it, and you’re going to be— you’re going to have to do what you have to do.
If we found half of the fraud that’s taking place in this country, and I think you have a chance of doing that, we would have much more than a balanced budget. That’s the kind of numbers you’re talking about. The theft is incredible. And I think JD will make— and Andrew will make a charge later on that local states should handle nursing homes and all of these things that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in. It’s too big. The federal government should handle military and a couple of other things, but when it comes to nursing homes, you saw where a young gentleman was going around and knocking on doors, and none of the nursing homes existed, none of the nurseries existed.
The money that’s being paid out, and the federal government pays for it. When you see all these people coming in, illegally, into our country, many criminals, many drug dealers, murderers, 11,888 murderers, and you look at California, and more and more come in, and yet they never had money. And yet they pay them! You know why they pay them? Because the federal government is charged with paying them. We’re not paying them anymore, and I said that.
So, these two really smart guys are going to be, I think it’s going to— hopefully it’s going to be JD, this will not be like a Kamala, where she was put in charge of the border, and she never went there. JD, right? You promise? Remember, Kamala was put in charge. She was the border Czar. She never went to the border. She never called any of the great Border Patrol, the Border Patrol testified, we never spoke to her in four years. And that was a disaster, but this is different, this is a different group of people.
Later in the press conference, when Trump signed the order, he declared, “The kind of money we’re talking about is is just country changing it’s country changing money. It’s having a deficit to having a really profitable country where you can lower your taxes substantially for people, and I think you have an opportunity to do it.”
“They were not even lax. Lax isn’t a good enough word. The previous the previous administration was fraudulent, okay? And I think that’s what you’re going to find also,” Trump said.
“I think they’re going to find numbers… that are far higher than you would think,” he added before calling out Minnesota, California, and the “slob of a Governor,” JB Pritzker of Illinois.
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