JD Vance pushes lawmakers to codify anti-fraud measures and avoid a President El-Sayed undoing task force efforts

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance called on Congress to codify more anti-fraud protections in upcoming bills during a Wednesday roundtable at the White House, in order to avoid, he said, a future Democratic administration undoing his task force’s work.So far, the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force has uncovered $230 billion in fraudulent funds that have gone out the door through taxpayer-funded benefit programs — and halted at least $56 billion that would have otherwise gone toward scammers, Vance told reporters.But the vice president added that his team’s efforts “will fundamentally always have a limitation unless our colleagues in the House and the Senate are working with us.”“We don’t want the next administration, whoever, you know, God forbid you’re gonna have President El-Sayed in three years,” Vance said, “we don’t want him to undo all the incredible work that we’ve been doing.”El-Sayed has been critical of Vance’s task force and dismissed concerns about taxpayer funds being wasted, defrauded or abused.Only Republican senators and reps attended the roundtable in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, but the vice president expressed hope that Democratic lawmakers would join their efforts to write laws imposing stricter penalties for fraudsters and allowing more data sharing between the feds and state governments.President Trump’s signed Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill into law in July 2025, restricting the eligibility of non-citizens seeking benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).But Vance claimed in Wednesday’s roundtable discussion that without more transparency from certain states, illegal aliens will be allowed to keep receiving SNAP benefits.“If the state of California gives those food stamp benefits to an illegal alien — to a violent criminal — the federal government has no visibility, and sometimes the states themselves have no visibility,” he said...