WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President JD Vance hosted the first meeting of the newly-formed White House fraud task force on Friday as the administration

Vance told attendees there have never been an administration that took fraud seriously, describing it as a massive problem under former President Joe Biden.

"A lot of the anti-fraud protections that existed in our government for a very long time were actually turned off by the Biden administration," Vance explained. "We're going to turn back on those anti-fraud protections so that all of these Cabinet officials are looking at what's going on and focusing on it."

The vice president said fraud is a theft of "critical services Americans rely on." He detailed an autism fraud scheme in Minneapolis as an example.

At Friday's meeting, Vance was joined by the task force's Vice Chair and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Miller is a senior advisor on the task force.

"Our work on this task force will be to develop comprehensive national strategy to combat the corruption of our federal benefits programs and to assist the Department of Justice and prosecuting those who have corrupted them," Ferguson said, describing the fraud crisis as existential.

Miller spoke about how he has not been able to get a list of SNAP names in Minnesota.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks during a Fraud Task Force meeting in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House on March 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. Vice President JD Vance held the Fraud Task Force Meeting with aims to reduce federal spending by identifying misuse of federal funds. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

He also discussed the DHS shutdown, calling it an atrocity and blaming Democrats' for not funding the Department of Homeland Security.

"It is legislative terrorism, it is one of the greatest abominations that has ever occurred in the history of this country," Miller said.