Donald Trump has given his vice-president, JD Vance, a new side gig: “fraud czar”. The president this week announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states and tapped Vance to lead the charge. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the US president announced that his vice-president was now “in charge of ‘fraud’ in the United States”, claiming the problem is “massive and pervasive”. Without citing evidence, Trump said that Vance would focus on “everywhere but primarily in those blue states where crooked Democrat politicians … have had a ‘free for all’ in the unprecedented theft of taxpayer money”. Trump pointed to California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine and New York, and alleged fraud was “so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American budget”, without providing evidence.

Source: The Guardian April 04, 2026 08:32 UTC