Trump signs Executive Order establishing an anti-fraud Task Force led by Vice President JD Vance – Mar 16, 2026
President Trump slammed the nation of Somalia and Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), noting that she “married her brother” and is “here illegally” while signing an executive order to establish the nation’s “first ever” task force to investigate fraud in federally administered housing, food, medical care, and cash assistance programs.
The task force will serve to “advise the President and coordinate government-wide efforts to combat widespread fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit programs.”
Chaired by Vice President JD Vance, with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson as Vice Chairman, “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 the order. “The Task Force will also coordinate development of minimum anti-fraud requirements to prevent exploitation of taxpayer-funded benefits, including proof of identity and documentation requirements, risk controls, and audit and remedial actions, while each member agency’ works to develop a measurable implementation plan.”
The order also highlights the massive “organized ring involving Somali immigrants” in Minnesota through programs like Feeding Our Future, noting that “There is strong reason to believe similar vulnerabilities exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado, where insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud.”
“Somalia’s a Third World, maybe a fourth world nation, one of the worst, one of the most dangerous,” Trump said. “They don’t have anything. They don’t have councils, they don’t have government, they don’t have police. They shoot each other all over the place.”
While highlighting the estimated $19 billion in Somali fraud, Trump described Ilhan Omar as “one of the ringleaders,” while calling for her to be removed from the country. “I hope this is part of it, but she married her brother, supposedly. I mean, there’s a lot of documentation, that means she’s here illegally, and she’s a congresswoman, and I hope you’re going to be looking at that, or somebody is all right?” he told Vance.
As written in the order, “In January 2026, Vice President JD Vance announced a new division at the Department of Justice dedicated to national fraud enforcement.”
If Vance can secure high-profile indictments, or if Ilhan Omar’s citizenship is actually investigated and revoked, he will undoubtedly have the 2028 presidential primary election locked in. However, if the weak Attorney General, Pam Bondi, fails to pursue recommendations, the task force will be a huge stain on Vance’s record.
Vance touted his recent action, alongside Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz, to withhold Medicaid funding from Minnesota after amid evidence that fraudsters, “primarily illegal immigrants,” were defrauding the autism assistance programs by falsely claiming their children were autistic. “ou had autistic kids in Minneapolis, in suburban Minneapolis, who weren’t getting benefits they needed because Somali fraudsters were literally stealing out of their pocket. It’s got to stop. And unfortunately, that kind of fraud is one example of probably hundreds just within the state of Minneapolis, and then it’s repeated and replayed all over the United States of America,” Vance said.
The task force will use a whole-of-government approach to “Stop the fraud on the American taxpayer, and make sure that the benefits that ought by right go to American citizens, go to American citizens, and not to fraudsters,” he added. This includes previously non-existent intergovernmental coordination with the Department of Justice to ensure that fraud rings are busted, says Vance.
Ferguson also highlighted the importance of properly using taxpayer funds, vowing also to expose how “the previous administration was pretty lax about existing anti-fraud controls.”
“I would take the word pretty out. I would change it with ‘unbelievably lax.’ They were not even lax. Lax isn’t a good enough word,” Trump added. “The previous administration was fraudulent, okay? And I think that’s what you’re going to find also.”
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TRANSCRIPT:
Trump: Everyone knows they’ve been cheating for years. It’s the first ever, and it’s got to be stopped. I mean, it’s got to be stopped. It’s, think of it, Somalia’s a Third World, maybe a fourth world nation, one of the worst, one of the most dangerous. They don’t have anything. They don’t have councils, they don’t have government, they don’t have police. They shoot each other all over the place.
They come here, and they steal $19 billion? That’s crazy, and Ilhan Omar, I hope this is part of it, but she married her brother, supposedly. I mean, there’s a lot of documentation, that means she’s here illegally, and she’s a congresswoman, and I hope you’re going to be looking at that, or somebody is all right? Because she’s one of the ringleaders here. She’s bad news, really bad news. She’s so bad for our country.
Vance: Thank you, Mr. President. This is a very important whole-of-government approach to tackle the fraud problem. And let me just tell one story. One of the things that even before this executive order was signed, that we were able to stop under the President’s leadership, is we saw evidence that in Minneapolis there were Somalis, primarily illegal immigrants, who were defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to go to autistic children. So, they were taking children who were supposed to get benefits, and they were claiming that their kids were actually autistic, even though they weren’t.
And what did this mean? This meant two things. Number one, you had a lot of people getting rich off of the fraud while American citizens got poorer. And the second thing that it meant is that you had autistic kids in Minneapolis, in suburban Minneapolis, who weren’t getting benefits they needed because Somali fraudsters were literally stealing out of their pocket. It’s got to stop. And unfortunately, that kind of fraud is one example of probably hundreds just within the state of Minneapolis, and then it’s repeated and replayed all over the United States of America.
When we first started talking about this problem, the President made it very clear he wanted us to take the fraud problem seriously because nobody had until he was president. We started to figure out one big hole that existed is that the agencies of the government weren’t actually talking to each other. So, Treasury would have evidence of financial fraud but wasn’t talking to the Department of Justice about it. Health and Human Services had evidence of Medicaid fraud but wasn’t talking to Department of Treasury about it.
So, what this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things: Stop the fraud on the American taxpayer, and make sure that the benefits that ought by right go to American citizens, go to American citizens, and not to fraudsters. Andrew Ferguson will be the vice chair, and is going to do a great job if you’re curious, what’s the difference between the vice chair and the chair. The vice chair is going to do all the work, and I’m going to take all the credit.
Ferguson: Look, millions and millions of Americans pay into these programs every day, and they expect to get something out of it, and this fraud is just siphoning money that millions of Americans pay to fund their hospitals, to fund their day care centers, into completely fake businesses. It isn’t just unfair to all of us as taxpayers who pay for all this. It’s particularly unfair to the Americans who need this the most and watch this money leave their hospital, leave their school system and go out to fraud.
And that is why this effort is so important. And I think we’ve just begun really looking at this, but I think that one of the things we’re going to find is that in a lot of these agencies, the previous administration was pretty lax about existing anti-fraud controls, and we’re going to expose that too.
Trump: I would take the word pretty out. I would change it with “unbelievably lax.” They were not even lax. Lax isn’t a good enough word. The previous administration was fraudulent, okay? And I think that’s what you’re going to find also.
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