A senior Labor Department official said the Trump administration is pursuing aggressive anti-fraud measures after what he described as one of the largest thefts of taxpayer money in American history involving unemployment insurance payments distributed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The comments came during an exchange between Benny Johnson and Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, who discussed the scale of unemployment insurance fraud and the administration’s efforts to prevent similar abuses in the future.
“Employment insurance fraud, massive vector of fraud in the country. How are you going to be solving this?” Johnson asked.
Sonderling began by highlighting President Donald Trump’s creation of a federal anti-fraud initiative and Vice President J.D. Vance’s leadership role in the effort.