Certain migrant communities are helping to drive widespread fraud that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News Digital.In an interview in his office in the West Wing of the White House last week, Vance discussed his work leading the fraud task force under President Trump.Vance said his team has found a clear pattern of collaboration involving migrant communities."You definitely see patterns where certain communities," Vance said.
"It'll start as maybe one Somali person takes advantage of the system, or realizes you don't even have to have children to get money from these programs.You could just claim that you have children, there's no verification.
Then, word spreads like wildfire, and that program gets tapped into by the same members of that community."Vice President JD Vance speaks next to Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz about combating fraud at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., Feb.25, 2026.
(REUTERS)TRUMP TOLD DONORS 'WE NEED TO ELECT JD,' SOURCE CONFIRMS, AS HE WEIGHS VANCE OR RUBIO IN 2028Vance, who is also leading ongoing negotiations with Iran and recently welcomed a new addition to his family, has a robust portfolio.He was tapped to tackle fraud after the issue exploded in Minneapolis earlier this year and is now working with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr.
Mehmet Oz and other agencies.In recent months, hundreds of hospice and home health agencies suspected of fraud in Minnesota and California have had federal payments suspended, and a number of other states are also under the watch of the task force.Vance said the fraud his team has uncovered has many victims.FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S LANDLORD JOINS VANCE FRAUD CRACKDOWN AS WHITE HOUSE WIDENS HUNT: 'CRITICAL FORCE'"The first and the most obvious victim is the American taxpayer," Vance said.
"You give your money to the federal government, and you expect the federal go...