President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday tasking Vice President JD Vance with overseeing an initiative aimed at investigating fraud across the U.S., the New York Post reported.
Trump and Vance are scheduled to sign the order at 3:30 p.m. ET at the White House, according to the president's schedule.
"In states across the country, fraudsters are depriving vulnerable citizens of basic social services, stealing billions of your tax dollars, and eroding America's social fabric," a Vance spokesperson told the Post.
"This fraud has happened on such a massive scale that it's endangering the future viability of America's entire social safety net."
"The Trump administration is responding with a whole-of-government war on fraud that includes multiple stakeholders who will follow the fraud wherever it leads."
The Post cited a document describing the order that singled out California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado as U.S. states with "insufficient" fraud oversight. Reuters has not verified the report.
Vance last month criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over fraud efforts and froze more than $250 million in Medicaid funding for the state.
Walz has slammed the Trump administration for what he called "a campaign of retribution."
Earlier this week, Vance hinted that California may be next for major fraud investigations.
"We know there's a lot of fraud in California, and we're trying to get to the bottom of exactly what it looks like and what we've done in the Trump administration," Vance said Friday following a speech in North Carolina.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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