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Vice President JD Vance Holds a Fraud Task Force Press Conference in Kansas City, Sep. 14, 2026

September 14, 2026 · The White House · 0:43:42

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance held a fraud task force press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 14, 2026, carried on the White House channel, flanked by Attorney General Todd Blanche and the SBA team. The headline announcement: under SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler — whom Vance called “probably the most zealous anti-fraud person in the entire administration” — the government will permanently suspend about 870,000 people who defrauded pandemic-era programs from ever borrowing from the federal government again. “If you screwed the American taxpayer, the federal government is now going to say, ‘You’re cut off,’” Vance said.

His second point was prosecution: “no fraud is too small,” and in just the last three months the administration had taken “close to 90 prosecutorial decisions” against PPP fraudsters. Blanche, who leads the enforcement side under the President’s fraud task force that Vance chairs, added the Missouri casework: a COVID-fraud surge between mid-June and September 1 spanning over 160 criminal defendants and approximately $245 million in intended loss, worked with the SBA Office of Inspector General, the FBI, and 40 U.S. attorneys’ offices, with about 43 defendants already pleaded guilty on SBA-related charges involving nearly $50 million in intended loss.

Why it matters

Kansas City is the fraud task force’s enforcement model on the road: debarment at scale (the 870,000 suspensions) paired with prosecutions, run jointly by the Vice President’s task force, the Justice Department, and Administrator Loeffler’s SBA — the same machinery behind the whistleblower incentive program the President and Vice President announced on October 20.

Scoreboard watch

This press conference carries candidate figures for the scoreboard: the ~870,000 permanent suspensions from federal lending, the ~90 recent prosecutorial decisions, and the Missouri surge totals (160+ defendants, ~$245 million intended loss).

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Holds a Fraud Task Force Press Conference” (official upload, embedded above; the upload’s description places the event at Kansas City, MO). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Vice President and the Attorney General at the press conference.