# Democratic AGs Boycott Fraud Roundtable (May 2026) Twenty-four Democratic state attorneys general refused, in a joint letter, to attend an anti-fraud roundtable at the White House hosted by Vice President [[JD Vance]] as chair of the [[Task Force to Eliminate Fraud]] — calling it a political stunt staged so Vance could claim bipartisan cover while the administration continued withholding their states' federal funds. ## What happened The Democratic AGs said they were invited only on a Friday, with no agenda and less than one business day's notice — a full week after their Republican counterparts had been invited. Treating the invitation as an "afterthought" by design, 24 of them signed a single letter and declined together rather than serve as backdrop for a photo op. California Attorney General **[[Rob Bonta]]** said the short notice "sends a clear message that we were either an afterthought or we weren't really welcome," and an official from the California Department of Justice was reportedly turned away at the door after traveling to Washington. (The Dworkin Report rendered Bonta's on-camera line as: the AGs "won't be used as props in Vance's political performance.") The 24 signatories were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. ## KB Significance **Coordinated state-level resistance.** The boycott is a clean example of Democratic attorneys general acting as a bloc against a second-term initiative — refusing to legitimize the [[Task Force to Eliminate Fraud]] even at the cost of a White House meeting. **The "bipartisanship" trap.** The episode illustrates a recurring tactic: structuring an invitation so that opponents either show up and supply bipartisan optics, or decline and can be cast as obstructionist. The AGs chose to refuse and document why. ## See Also - [[Task Force to Eliminate Fraud]] - [[JD Vance]] - [[Rob Bonta]]