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Michael Sainato

Democrats say they were shut out of fraud event after Vance says crackdown ‘should not be partisan’

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Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, speaks at rally with local elected officials and activists at the Justice Sonia Sotomayor community center in New York on 8 May 2026. Photograph: Lev Radin/Shutterstock

Three Democratic state attorneys general said their deputies were turned away from a roundtable hosted by JD Vance on Tuesday, sowing confusion about what the White House has billed as a bipartisan crackdown on fraud.

After attorneys general – including New York’s Letitia James, California’s Rob Bonta and New Jersey’s Jennifer Davenport – declined a last-minute invitation to participate in the event alongside their Republican counterparts, they said representatives from their offices travelled to Washington to attend, but were shut out.

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