"My worry is that she's risking setting a public narrative that this is a program that has more fraud than it actually does, or that the people who need it and use it to meet their very basic food needs are somehow committing a crime by seeking food assistance," said Stacy Dean, GFI's executive director and a former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official during the Biden administration. "And that's just it's not it's not good for the program. It's absolutely terrible for the people who need it," Dean said.
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