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Vice President JD Vance Holds a State Attorneys General Roundtable on Anti-Fraud Initiatives, May 26, 2026

May 26, 2026 · The White House · 0:20:47

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance hosted a roundtable with state attorneys general at the White House on May 26, 2026, with 15 state attorney general offices represented, to recruit the states as partners in the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. “One of the things we’ve realized in combating fraud is that the resources of the federal government, while vast, can be supplemented and aided by a lot of the people who know best what’s happening in their states,” he said, stressing the effort “should not be a partisan effort.”

His two-month recap, as he stated it: “We’ve referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We’ve deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements,” and the task force has put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers. Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller then announced the enforcement half of the plan: the Department of Justice has created a new National Fraud Enforcement Division to coordinate federal anti-fraud law enforcement with the task force, and HHS will review the states’ Medicaid fraud control units, which receive nearly half a billion federal dollars a year, to ensure the money is used to fight as much fraud as possible.

Why it matters

This is the fraud task force’s federalism move: state attorneys general control the Medicaid fraud control units that police the largest benefit programs, and the May 26 roundtable is where the Vice President asked them to partner — with a new DOJ division and a funding review as the federal levers. It sits on the Fraud hub between the task force’s ACA actions and its later SNAP surge.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: $22 billion in SBA loans referred for collection, $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements deferred, and the creation of the DOJ National Fraud Enforcement Division — each as stated at the roundtable, checkable against Treasury, CMS, and DOJ records.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Holds a State Attorneys General Roundtable on Anti-Fraud Initiatives,” The White House, May 26, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by Vice President Vance and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at the roundtable.