Establishing the Task Force To Eliminate Fraud

[Executive Order 14395] is an executive action signed by President (name not specified in the document) that establishes a Task Force to Eliminate Fraud inside the Executive Office of the President to coordinate a national strategy against fraud in federally funded benefit programs (Sec. 2(a); Sec. 3(a)). The Vice President will chair the Task Force and the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission will be Vice Chair, with many cabinet agencies included as members (Sec. 2(b)–(c)). The Task Force must develop verification controls, recommend pre-payment safeguards, promote data sharing with states, and consider withholding Federal funds from jurisdictions that fail anti-fraud checks (Sec. 3(a)(i)–(ix); Sec. 4(b)). This matters because the Task Force aims to reduce misuse of taxpayer-funded housing, food, medical, and cash-assistance programs that, the order says, harms eligible Americans and taxpayers (Sec. 1).