Sorry - way too much evidence of fraud and waste for me to feel even a twinge of sympathy for the author’s position.
Clean that up first, and we’ll talk about the truly needy.
Tell you what. We should as a nation be able to feed the truly needy and clean up fraud at the same time. Hopefully the people administering the program will look at the lesser funding and decide that they need to do a little more than just rubber stamp applications.