JD Vance given new role that Democrats say will haunt 2028 as Iran war casts shadow over vice president

Democrats are already using JD Vance’s new ‘Fraud Czar’ role against him, mocking the Vice President as ‘needing a job’ as he languishes in the shadows of the Iran war.

Donald Trump announced on Monday that Vance would lead the new White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, the appointment coming as the President has publicly acknowledged his VP’s low enthusiasm for the Iran conflict. 

But Vance’s new appointment, liberals say, is nothing more than a ‘participation trophy’ for a Trump deputy left without a defined domestic or foreign policy agenda.

‘Pretty rich that the party supposedly against participation trophies is handing them out like crazy – first Noem now JD,’ one Democratic official told the Daily Mail. 

‘If he actually wants to investigate fraud and corruption, he should start with his boss’s family who have grifted nearly $2.5 billion since he took office.’ 

The President announced a renewed fraud crackdown during his State of the Union address last month as he touted DOGE’s sweeping cuts to the bloated government.

Trump signed an executive order codifying the task force on Monday, making Vance the chairman of the panel focused on closing loopholes, enforcing eligibility rules and protecting benefits from extortion. Trump stressed it could help lower the debt. 

Recent benefits fraud scandals in Minnesota, including in Somali-run child care centers, housing stabilization and autism programs and more, have emboldened the White House’s scam-hunting ambitions.

‘Vice President Vance is proud to lead the newly announced task force focused on tackling rampant at the forefront of the Administration’s whole-of-government War on Fraud,’ a spokesperson told the Daily Mail. 

‘The task force will lead the charge in identifying and prosecuting fraudsters and ensuring states are taking reasonable steps to prevent criminals from ripping off taxpayers.’

Liberal strongholds like California, Illinois and New York are the next targets for Trump’s anti-corruption review, the President has warned. 

But Democrats claim Trump and his associates need to be probed. Liberal lawmakers have launched multiple investigations and authored reports into the accumulated wealth, calling the schemes ‘fraudulent’ and ‘corrupt.’ 

According to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, the Trump family has profited $2.45 billion from digital assets. Overall, the Trump family’s digital asset portfolio is valued at just under $10 billion, the committee states. 

Vance’s new job carried major risks, most notably a new mission that, if left incomplete by 2028, could prove to be a measuring stick to prove the 41-year-old’s inability.

‘It will be blocks of cement around his ankles,’ a senior Democratic official told RealClearPolitics, while another warned it ‘will be an albatross around his neck’ come 2028. 

A third liberal strategist told the outlet: ‘It will be incredible to watch – it’s like he just needed a job but can’t have foreign policy.’

Trump said at the White House Monday, while Vance stood next to him, ‘This will not be like a Kamala, where she was put in charge of the border.’

‘You promise?’ the President asked Vance.

‘I promise,’ the GOP 2028 heir apparent replied. 

Former Vice President Kamala Harris was notoriously dubbed ex-President Joe Biden’s ‘Border Czar’ in charge of immigration and the US-Mexico border. 

Biden never formally dubbed Harris his ‘Border Czar’; her actual remit was diplomatic engagement with Latin American source countries, not immigration enforcement.  

Still, with tens of millions of migrants estimated to have crossed during her tenure and just two border visits on her record, Harris proved VP assignments can be politically treacherous. 

Trump later sailed to victory in 2024 in large part due to his immigration agenda and the Democratic administration’s fumbling on the matter.