The White House task force led by Vice President J.D. Vance to target fraud in government programs is working as intended: It’s catching past and current fraud, pushing for prosecutions, and limiting future fraud with new procedural safeguards. The numbers, so far, aren’t the story. Vance said this week that the administration’s anti-fraud effort had “blocked $60 million in student aid fraud,” for example, a number you can compare to $39 trillion in federal debt.
But the task force is also reaching beyond those basic goals to talk about something else, and the something else is becoming unusually important.
