Trump signs order to launch Vance-led anti-fraud task force [View all]

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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order to launch an task force targeting federal benefits fraud to be led by Vice President JD Vance, intensifying the administration’s oversight of federal funds in Democratic-led states.

Trump and allies have sought to highlight fraud allegations in blue states, most notably in Minnesota, where the president seized on criminal cases involving Somali immigrants to justify in part an immigration crackdown in the state. Monday’s order aims to expand that anti-fraud scrutiny nationwide.

“This is not a Republican, Democrat thing. This is wherever it’s taking place,” Trump said Monday as he signed the order establishing the task force. Still he added,“It seems that it’s usually in blue states. If it’s in a red state, we’re going there too. But it seems that it’s heavily, heavily, heavily Democrat.”

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson will serve as vice chair and White House aide Stephen Miller will advise the task force, the New York Post reported Monday.

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