This is much needed. Vice President JD Vance, while attending a White House press briefing, announced teh creation of a new government position. Vance, while addressing mebers of the press, revealed the Trump administration has created the new position of an Assistant Attorney General. Vance later shared that the new position will be tasked with handling fraud. CBS provided further details on Vance’s big announcement: Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the Trump administration is creating a new assistant attorney general position focused on investigating fraud following allegations that taxpayers were bilked out of billions of dollars in Minnesota. Vance said the new assistant attorney general will help coordinate an administration-wide effort to investigate potential fraudulent activity in federally-backed programs and bring charges. The assistant attorney general will not work out of the Justice Department, the vice president said. Instead, the position will be run out of the White House and overseen by President Trump and Vance, he said. “This is the person who is going to make sure we stop defrauding the American people,” Vance told reporters at the White House press briefing. The assistant attorney general will be Senate-confirmed, and Vance said a nominee will likely be announced in the coming days. He said Senate Majority Leader John Thune pledged “swift confirmation.” The assistant attorney general leading the investigations will likely remain in place until the end of the Trump administration, according to Vance. He said the official will have “nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” but efforts will begin and be focused primarily on Minnesota. Watch Vance make the announcement below: Backup here if needed: MAJOR BREAKING: JD Vance announces new nationwide Assistant AG position to prosecute mass fraud. Beginning in Minnesota. “We are creating a new Assistant Attorney General position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.”pic.twitter.com/ePbqoF7MU5 — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 8, 2026 Yahoo News reported that around the same time Vance made his remarks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed the Trump admin is going after fraud occurring in Minnesota: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday underscored the U.S. government’s commitment to recovering funds ​stolen in a social services fraud scheme in Minnesota, prosecuting those responsible ‌and preventing future crimes. Bessent, in remarks prepared for a speech to the Economic Club of Minnesota, said Treasury ‌would also probe similar fraud in other states. “Minnesota is ground zero for what may be the most egregious welfare scam in our nation’s history to date. Under Governor Tim Walz, billions of dollars intended for families in need, housing for disabled seniors, and services ⁠for children were diverted to ‌benefit fraudsters,” Bessent said. “I am here this week to signal the U.S. Treasury’s unwavering commitment to recovering stolen funds, prosecuting fraudulent criminals, ‍preventing scandals like this from ever happening again, and investigating similar schemes state by state.” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat and a vice president candidate in the 2024 election, this week ​announced he will not seek a third term and instead focus on allegations ‌of state welfare fraud that have become a crisis after mounting attacks from Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. The Trump administration has singled out Walz and Minnesota, including its large population of Somali Americans and Somali immigrants, over allegations of fraud dating to 2020 by some nonprofit groups that administer the state’s childcare and other social services ⁠programs, backed by federal funding. Watch Bessent below: .@SecScottBessent: “Under Governor Tim Walz, billions of dollars intended for families in need, housing for disabled seniors, and services for children were diverted to benefit fraudsters. I am here this week to single the @USTreasury‘s unwavering commitment to recovering stolen… pic.twitter.com/uAUUDLTBkI — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 8, 2026