At a May 27 Cabinet meeting, President Trump credited Vice President JD Vance and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud with exposing tens of billions of dollars in defrauded taxpayer money within two months. The administration stated that the task force has prosecuted fraudsters and halted billions in suspicious payments. Trump emphasized that this effort could help preserve Social Security benefits and, if successful, contribute to balancing the federal budget.
Established under Executive Order 14395, the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is chaired by Vice President Vance and includes major federal departments and agencies such as Treasury, Justice, Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, the Small Business Administration, and the Office of Management and Budget.
The order directs the task force to coordinate a national strategy targeting fraud, waste, and abuse in federal benefit programs. This includes implementing eligibility verification, pre-payment controls, fraud-indicator reviews, interagency data sharing, disruption of fraud networks, and enforcement against fraudulent entities. On May 28, the General Services Administration (GSA) joined the task force, bringing its expertise in procurement, technology, operational processes, acquisition, shared services, modernization, and federal real estate to strengthen oversight and identify high-risk fraud patterns across taxpayer-funded systems.