VP JD Vance announced Operation HEARTLAND SURGE in Kansas City, targeting COVID-era small business loan fraud. The Trump administration will permanently ban 870,000 individuals from SBA loans and pursue prosecutions.

Vance: "No fraud is too small. If you tried to steal money from the American taxpayer, if you took funds that ought to have gone to American small businesses or American workers, not only we're going to cut you off, but we're going to prosecute you."

AG Blanche, FBI Director Patel, and SBA Administrator Loeffler attended the announcement.