Live: Vice President JD Vance Holds a State Attorneys General Roundtable on Anti-Fraud Initiatives

Fixing welfare fraud can balance the federal budget?!

Multiple sources are quoting Stephen Miller (I think from the above roundtable) as saying exactly that. Considering the scope of federal spending, it's an incredible statement.

If true, this is a gamechanger for state and federal Medicaid, department budgets, debt, individual taxes and poverty, and the entire welfare economy.

https://wabcradio.com/2026/05/27/stephen-miller/

Stephen Miller Calls Out Welfare Fraud…

ND     |     May 27, 2026

(Washington, DC) – Stephen Miller is claiming welfare fraud is so widespread that eliminating it could help balance the entire federal budget.

Miller said the government is losing “hundreds of billions” of dollars through improper payments and fraud, arguing that taxpayer money is being drained by people who are not legally or properly eligible to receive benefits.

He said the federal budget would look dramatically different if Treasury payments only went to people who were correctly verified and qualified under the law. The comments come as the Trump administration continues to focus on fraud, waste and abuse across federal programs, framing improper payments as a major driver of government spending.

On the heels of Daily Caller breaking DOJ news of finding $350 Million fraud across 17 states, mostly in the southeast with cooperative AG's, JD Vance gives the big picture across federal departments. 

True saying: follow the money.

Watch Camp David footage at the link.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/31/vance-announces-billions-in-fraud/

Vance Announces Massive Fraud Crackdown at Historic Camp David Cabinet Meeting

Virginia Grace McKinnon    |    July 31, 2026

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a Cabinet meeting hosted by US President Donald Trump at Camp David.

At the first-ever live-streamed Cabinet meeting from Camp David, Vice President JD Vance, leader of the administration’s new anti-fraud task force, announced record-breaking levels of fraud against the American people.

“We have identified $230 billion of fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American people, and we have halted $56 billion,” Vance announced at Friday morning’s Cabinet meeting led by President Donald Trump.

“The level of corruption and fraud that took place under the Biden administration was unprecedented,” Trump said following Vance’s announcement.

While Vance confirmed they identified $230 billion in fraud, he said it’s hard to get it back or track it down once it’s “out the door.” But now that it is identified, Vance said they can stop it from happening again.

“This really has required a whole administration approach to try to tackle fraud,” Vance continued. He thanked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Douglas Collins for their help uncovering fraud.

“The level of corruption is incredible,” Trump continued. He cited Minnesota, California, and Maine as the states with the highest levels of corruption.

“We’re going to keep on working at it because we believe the American people deserve to have their money spent as you, the Congress, have directed,” Vance said to Trump.

In addition to the $230 billion in fraud already uncovered, Vance also announced that Trump is set to announce 17 new anti-fraud actions later Friday. Vance said these actions will total more than $300 million saved for the American people.

On Thursday, as first reported by the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice uncovered $350 million in alleged Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fraud across the southeastern United States. Vance thanked Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald and the National Fraud Enforcement Division at the DOJ.

“My message to the fraudsters is this: Our team is getting bigger, our resolve is getting stronger, and your time is getting shorter,” McDonald said at the announcement.

Just last week, the Treasury Department and Secretary Scott Bessent, working with Vance, implemented new guardrails to prevent fraud. The department created a new screening system to detect federal payments being sent to dead people. Already, the system has stopped almost $100 million that had been marked to be sent to those who are deceased.

Camp David, the presidential retreat center, is one of the most private facilities in the country and is rarely, if ever, seen by the public. This was the first Camp David Cabinet meeting livestreamed to the American public, highlighting the administration’s promise of transparency.

Reference to Michigan officials conspicuously lacking here. Three possibilities.... 

They weren't there. They asked to remain incognito. The news outlet chose not to mention them.

Any of the three options is a story in itself.

https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/31/doj-roundtable-welfare-medicaid-fraud-states-data-sharing-agreement-grants-funding/

EXCLUSIVE: Inside The DOJ Roundtable That’s Quietly Uniting Seven States Against Fraud

Reagan Reese    |    July 31, 2026

COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 50 officials from seven southeastern states convened Thursday to sign a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Justice aimed at rooting out fraud.

Across the seven states, officials have uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud, according to information shared with the Daily Caller. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed Thursday, the states will give the DOJ access to “publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies.” It is data officials said will help the department spot fraud patterns faster.

Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, met with dozens of state officials before his press conference to discuss their work and how the federal government could better support it. The Daily Caller was the only outlet allowed in the room.

“To state partners here and across the country is this: the fraud division and our U.S. attorneys’ offices are ready to help you scale your efforts to strengthen your cases and deliver results for the taxpayers of America,” McDonald said at a press conference following the roundtable.

“Your partnership with us is the antidote to the fraud epidemic facing our nation. And my message to the fraudsters is this: Our team is getting bigger, our resolve is getting stronger, and your time is getting shorter,” he added.

Over the hour-and-a-half meeting, which ran past its scheduled end, officials walked through the progress they’d made uncovering fraud in their states. North Carolina asked for “department-wide access to advanced data analytics tools” to help farm data. They called on Congress to help combat fraud. Others described working across party lines, and some revealed how gangs are using fraud schemes to recruit teenagers.

Mississippi used the meeting to announce a new fraud task force, made possible by a grant program the DOJ unveiled. It is the first such federal grant awarded. The room traded notes on how other states could tap the same program.

“We’re going to be able to have five new prosecutors come in and work specifically on fraud. We’ll be able to hire a law enforcement officer specifically on this task force as well, and an analyst,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the Caller in an interview about the grant. “This gives us the opportunity to hire people that are dedicated.”

South Carolina and North Carolina brought news of their own. South Carolina officials announced they had uncovered the largest Medicaid fraud in state history, crediting an unlikely partnership for cracking the case: they worked alongside North Carolina, with an attorney general’s office led by a Democrat.

“Elected Republican, elected Democrat, state, federal, South Carolina, North Carolina — and if it hadn’t been for our ability to work together with their U.S. Attorney’s office … we would not have been able to uncover the largest Medicaid fraud in South Carolina history,” one state official said during the roundtable.

In an interview, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson credited his North Carolina counterpart, Jeff Jackson, with making fraud a priority of his administration. It was one reason the two states could work together. And Wilson said the DOJ has been instrumental in letting states across the country coordinate.

“When the administration makes it a priority at the federal level, it helps us support our priorities at the state level,” Wilson told the Caller. “Knowing that I have a liaison, a person I can call directly, it helps us make it a bigger priority here at the state. When we’re out operating by ourselves in the wilderness, we can only do so much.”

Wilson noted that when fraud crosses a state border, he loses jurisdiction. With an assistant attorney general dedicated to fraud, states can now call on the DOJ and its specialized fraud office to bridge that gap.

“[They] can break down those jurisdictional barriers, those geographic barriers, even the cultural barriers,” he said.

State officials aren’t the only ones happy to get more resources to fight fraud; federal officials expressed relief to the Caller as well. Fraud has been a long-time issue. The year prior, the FBI had 21 billion dollars reported to them in fraud, Heith Janke, the FBI assistant director, told the Caller. That is a 26% increase from the previous year.

“We’ve always had dedicated agents that investigated fraud, but not enough. We never had enough agent support. We never had enough prosecutor support to really tackle all this. I think the change is that this administration has said enough’s enough, fraudsters,” Janke told the Caller, adding that they have more agents, analysts and prosecutors under the Trump administration.

James Harris, Homeland Security of Investigations assistant director, told the Caller that the Trump administration’s focus on fraud has renewed hope among federal agents.

“If we don’t have the support or the partnerships, you can’t really go too far. You just kind of scratch the surface,” Harris told the Caller.

“But when you have the partnerships and do stuff like we did today, and you have the support, you know, then we can go zero tolerance. Then we can then unleash everything that we have,” he added.

The administration’s focus on fraud came after YouTuber Nick Shirley exposed nearly a dozen Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota that were not actually providing services.

The Trump White House later launched a task force dedicated to rooting out fraud across the country. The effort has been led by Vice President JD Vance, who McDonald reports to in his newly created position. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Intercepts $60 Million In Student Loan Fraud)

“The fraud-fighting team assembled here today is resolved to work together to break those cycles and bring the fraudsters out into the light,” McDonald said Thursday.

“When federal prosecutors work with state agencies to share leads, data, strategy, the American people win. Better intelligence, better cases, better training, more money returned to victims, and more fraudsters behind bars where they belong,” he continued.