WATCH: Vice President JD Vance Swears in First-Ever Anti-Fraud Assistant AG

Vice President JD Vance had the honor of swearing in our nation’s very first Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement, Colin McDonald, today.

The swearing in ceremony took place in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office.

Watch it here:

WATCH: @VP swears-in Colin McDonald as Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement pic.twitter.com/T4ZIQilB2P

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 1, 2026

Colin McDonald was confirmed by the Senate last week.

He previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California.

The New York Post has more:

The “fearless” federal prosecutor will now work closely with DOJ colleagues and Vice President JD Vance, who chair’s President Trump’s fraud task force — after serving for more than a decade as an assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of California.

“Colin McDonald is a great choice and will be a key asset in the War on Fraud,” Vance told The Post.

“The Task Force to Eliminate Fraud will help coordinate the interagency effort to root out and identify fraudsters, and separately, Colin will have nationwide jurisdiction at the Justice Department to prosecute the bad guys,” the vice president noted.

“This an important step by Congress to help the Administration protect taxpayers and vulnerable Americans from criminal fraudsters.”

Vance announced his role as chair of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud at a White House press briefing earlier this month following sprawling federal probes into Minnesota and California for allegedly bilking taxpayers into funding scam social service programs such as child care centers.

After swearing in McDonald, VP Vance posted a statement on X:

Glad to swear in my friend Colin McDonald today. He will do big things in this new job and ensure that no fraud against the taxpayer is too big or too small to prosecute. https://t.co/1ghJHSLSTc

— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 1, 2026

Backup here if needed:

In another development in the fraud crackdown, VP Vance also announced that they have reversed a Biden-era policy that ignored fraud cases under a certain amount.

Watch this:

🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance CONFIRMS the Trump admin has abolished the Biden admin rule that legalized SOME fraud if it's "small enough"

Fraud prosecutor AAG Colin McDonald will now target any and ALL fraud, anywhere, no matter how big or small

GOOD! 🔥pic.twitter.com/H206flnaBq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 1, 2026

Now that Assistant AG MCDonald is officially on the job, the investigations and prosecutions can really ramp up across the nation…

Let’s go!