By Tessa Stuart On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a new “Task Force to Eliminate Fraud” to be led by Vice President J.D. Vance, whom Trump has unofficially dubbed his “Fraud Czar.” “The very big thing that we’re doing — it’s about fraud, having to do with all of the fraud that’s taking place in our country,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Monday. “You’ve been seeing it, and seeing it pretty big, in Minnesota: $19 billion dollars, but that’s only for one little aspect of the fraud.” (In fact, federal prosecutors have suggested that the fraud in Minnesota, while staggering, was less than half that figure, estimating that roughly $9 billion in money earmarked for Medicaid-funded programs has been stolen since 2018.) Trump’s announcement this week came after the president declared during his State of the Union address his intention to wage a “War on Fraud.” “If we’re able to find enough fraud,” Trump said at the time, “We’ll actually have a balanced budget overnight.”…