Vice President JD Vance, leading President Donald Trump’s “war on fraud,” has a plum opportunity to prove his mettle to Trump’s base before the 2028 Republican presidential primary.

Trump’s base has been outraged at the reports of rampant fraud in Minnesota, with the Justice Department alleging in December that half or more of the $18 billion in federal funds spent on 14 Minnesota-run programs for the likes of child nutrition, housing services, and autism since 2018 may have been stolen.