Vice President JD Vance gathered several state attorneys general in a continued endeavor to combat fraud in government programs.
Watch the event in the video player above.
Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson announced during the roundtable that the Department of Justice has created a new National Fraud Enforcement division.
The new division will aim to “coordinate the federal government’s anti-fraud law enforcement efforts, along with the task force and the Homeland Security Council,” according to Ferguson.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also was present during the roundtable and praised the anti-fraud task force with being the “fastest in history that a government task force has traveled from creation to action.”
Vance emphasized the fraud being committed on federal benefits programs saying that “these are not victimless crimes. Sometimes the most vulnerable people in our community are the ones who suffer when we don’t take fraud seriously.”
