In Wednesday's Trump administration cabinet meeting, the 12th such meeting of President Trump's second term, the president had some pointed things to say on a variety of topics. One of his key points had to do with the fraud task force led by the vice president, in which President Trump evoked a great fictional American cop.
TRUMP on JD Vance's handling of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2026
"He looks like Eliot Ness." pic.twitter.com/mHm24m9psw
In this clip, the president says:
And you know, if he does really great, we'll have a balanced budget without having to do anything. This is the kind of money they stole. They're crooks. They're thieves. And I hope that Todd is going to do a real job. These are crooked people. These are thieves. This isn't like a mistake, just talking about one person. He got hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars for securing one man, for taking care of one elderly man. He was a service. He got paid millions of dollars for taking care of one man. Total crook. They're all crooks.
The Somalians, what they've done to Minnesota, the Somalians, they're crooked as hell. Ilhan Omar, crooked as hell. They're all crooks. And we got them. We got them. Now we're putting the clamps on.
But boy, I tell you, that's an impressive group of guys that you have behind you. I was watching that, and a couple of very strong women, too. But I was watching that last night. I said, 'I'm proud of you guys.'
Despite President Trump's enthusiasm for this crackdown, which is worth doing and in spades, it won't balance the budget, much less make a dent in the national debt. But that doesn't mean it's not an important effort. The task force and the Justice Department have uncovered billions in fraud, and who knows but that it won't be in the trillions before they're done; and let's be honest, efforts like this are never "done." As long as the federal government has money to hand out, there will be people trying to get their hands on some of it through fraud or theft.
However, the extent to which this has been going on up until now is nothing less than shocking.
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Here's the other thing: With JD Vance's name at the top of this effort's organizational chart, it sure can't do him any harm going into the 2028 presidential election, should he choose to run for it. The only other real contender in the administration is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and he's a team player to the point where, if JD Vance decided to run for the top job, it's unlikely SecState would challenge him. But he would make one heck of a VP pick. A Vance/Rubio ticket, with the recovery of billions, maybe trillions in fraud on the one hand, and the best Secretary of State in decades on the other; domestic and foreign policy chops, compelling back stories. That would be a heck of a team to try to beat, and if the Democrats decide to run Kamala Harris and, as has been floated, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), well, just imagine how those debates will go. They should be giggle-inducing, and that's for sure and for certain.
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