Vice President JD Vance, Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Task ForceViceChair, will hold a roundtable this afternoon with State Attorneys General to discuss the Trump Administration’s nationwide crackdown on federal benefits fraud.
In March, President Trump tasked the Vice President with leading the White House’s Fraud Task Force and investigations into schemes to defraud the federal government through welfare programs and immigration.
“The Task Force will coordinate measures to improve eligibility verification, implement pre-payment controls, detect high-risk fraud trends, and disrupt and dismantle fraud networks and the mechanisms through which fraud is committed,” according to Trump’sExecutive Orderestablishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
Over a dozen Republican Attorneys General are expected to be at the event.
However, the Democrats angrily refused to attend because they had not received advance notice. According to sources familiar with the matter, Democratic Attorneys General received an invite to the event on Friday with a Saturday deadline to RSVP, Politicoreports.
Republicans received invitations a week prior, but Vance later insisted that Democrats be invited.
The event was originally planned to include only Republican attorneys general but it was later decided to invite Democrats as well at Vance’s insistence, the person said.
A group of Democratic attorneys generalsent a joint letterto Vance on Monday evening declining his invitation to the event, noting that it “was provided with less than one business day’s notice with no agenda.”
“This short notice does not match the spirit of collaboration that has long defined our joint efforts with federal partners,” they wrote.
Ahead of the meeting, Vance’s office highlighted the actions taken to date in a press release.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
