Trump Signs Task Force EO Launching Whole of

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an government order formally launching the Fraud Task Force. Trump first announced this initiative in his February State of the Union deal with to fight fraud within the systems of the federal authorities benefit applications that overlap with the 50 states, most notably, the Medicaid providers that have been abused in cities like Minneapolis and California.

From the Executive Order:

Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order creating the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which is able to advise the President and coordinate government-wide efforts to fight widespread fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit applications.

The Vice President will serve as Chair of the Task Force, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission will serve as Vice Chairman, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security will serve as Senior Advisor, and an Executive Director will handle daily operations. Relevant cupboard secretaries and heads of authorities companies will serve as Task Force members.

The Order directs the Task Force, on behalf of the President, to coordinate a complete national strategy to stop fraud, waste, and abuse across Federal benefit applications, including housing, food, medical care, and money help administered with State and local companions, in order to shield these advantages for eligible Americans.

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The president was surrounded by Vice President JD Vance, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and other staffers and press in the Oval Office. Trump declared, “This is a very big thing we’re doing,” then requested White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf to describe the manager order and its goals.

“Mr. President, 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 to the American taxpayer. This Task Force will be chaired by the Vice President, the vice chairman will be the head of FTC Andrew Ferguson, whose with us here as well today. But 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.”

WATCH:

“This is a very big thing that we’re doing… having to do with all of the fraud that’s taking place in our country.”@POTUS prepares to signal an Executive Order establishing a @VP-led activity power to root out fraud, as outlined in his State of the Union deal with. pic.twitter.com/5tSg93E1Io

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 16, 2026

Trump then launched VP Vance, who elucidated how President Trump had already begun to deal with the fraud downside, beginning in Minnesota. 

“This is a very important whole of government approach to tackling the fraud problem. Let me just tell one story, one of the things that even before this executive order was signed that we were able to stop under the president’s leadership.

“We noticed evidence, that in Minneapolis, there have been Somalians, primarily unlawful immigrants, who had been defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to go to autistic youngsters. So, they had been taking youngsters who had been supposed to get advantages, and they had been claiming that their youngsters had been really autistic, even though they weren’t. And what did this imply? This meant two issues. Number 1, you had a lot of people getting wealthy off of the fraud while the American residents acquired poorer. And the second factor that it meant is that you had autistic youngsters, in Minneapolis, in suburban Minneapolis, who weren’t getting advantages they needed because Somali fraudsters had been actually stealing out of their pocket. It’s acquired to stop, and sadly that form of fraud is one instance of most likely a whole lot just within the state of Minneapolis, and then it is repeated and replayed all over the United States of America.”

Vance additional explained that the explanation a Task Force was needed is that fraud that had been found in one company was hardly ever (if ever) communicated to another one. 

“When we first started talking about this problem, the president made it very clear he wanted us to take the fraud problem seriously, because nobody had until he was president, we started to figure out one big hole that existed is that the agencies of government weren’t actually talking to each other. So, Treasury would have evidence of financial fraud, but wasn’t talking to the Department of Justice about it. Health and Human Services had evidence of Medicaid fraud, but wasn’t talking to the Department of the Treasury about it. So, what this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things: Stop the fraud of the American taxpayer and make sure that the benefits that ought by right go to American citizens, go to American citizens and not to fraudsters.”

Vance then launched FTC Chair and vice chair of the Task Force, Andrew Ferguson. Vance jokingly said, “If you’re curious what’s the difference between the vice chair and the chair: the vice chair is going to do all the work, and I’m going to take all the credit.”

WATCH:

.@VP: “What this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things: stop the fraud of the American taxpayer, and make sure that the benefits that ought, by right, go to American citizens, go to American citizens, and not to fraudsters.” https://t.co/G8xIyQk9VV pic.twitter.com/OMumxv8coj

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 16, 2026

FTC Chair Ferguson delineated additional why this was so important. American taxpayers paid into a system that they anticipated to be there for them when they needed it. Instead, they’ve found that this money, which ought to have been allotted for their wants, has been funneled into fraudulent companies and propping up unlawful aliens, instead of getting used for American residents.

Ferguson said:

“Millions and millions of Americans pay into these programs everyday, and they expect to get something out of it. And this fraud is just siphoning money that millions of Americans pay to fund their hospitals, to fund their day care centers, into completely fake businesses. It isn’t just unfair to all of us as taxpayers who pay for all this, it’s particularly unfair to the Americans who need this the most and watch this money leave their hospital, leave their school systems, and go out to fraud. And that is why this effort is so important. 

“And I feel, we have just begun actually trying at this, but I feel one of the issues we’re going to discover is that in a lot of these companies, the earlier administration was fairly lax about present anti-fraud controls, and we’re going to expose that too.”

WATCH:

.@AFergusonFTC: “This fraud is just siphoning money that tens of millions of Americans pay to fund their hospitals, to fund their daycare facilities, into fully pretend companies. It isn’t just unfair to all of us, as taxpayers, who pay for all this, it is significantly unfair to the… https://t.co/G8xIyQk9VV pic.twitter.com/pcn9ah9Fdq

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 16, 2026

As CrimsonState reported, Minnesota, California, and Maine are at the forefront of states getting the deep dive from the Fraud Task Force. However, a state auditors’ report detailing $5.7 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse discovered across 28 states also can not be ignored.

The State Financial Officers Foundation’s 2025 Oversight Report lays out what 40 state treasurers, auditors, and comptrollers say they uncovered after digging into eligibility systems, cost flows, and local authorities spending. The doc places numbers on the web page.

The Oversight Report elevated Kentucky and North Carolina as in need of deeper scrutiny. But our next in line suggestions are: Illinois, Hawaii, and the ruby crimson states of Georgia and Alabama.

The Fraud Task Force, headed by VP Vance and FTC Chair Ferguson, will see it carried out.

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