Watchdog finds Biden’s USDA improperly increased SNAP by billions, writes Angela Rachidi. RestoringAmerica
believed it did. The USDA conducted the reevaluation without the cost constraints, resulting in an unprecedented 21% increase in SNAP benefits.a review by the GAO with several questions about the USDA’s reevaluation process. The GAO has now released two reports, each concluding that the USDA acted improperly throughout the process.that the USDA violated the Congressional Review Act , which requires government bureaucracies to submit significant policy updates to Congress.
Second, the GAO cited multiple instances that the USDA failed to follow the basic steps necessary to ensure integrity of the process. They failed to use evidence to justify decisions, they neglected to document their decision-making process, and they ignored their own internal guidance on how to review and check the results of their decisions.
In fact, the GAO identified 11 crucial decision points and established that the USDA lacked documentation and justification for all decisions. The GAO found that the USDA did not even complete their information gathering in advance of making key decisions, leaving officials to report that they used evidence “mainly for context and not as a direct input to the TFP reevaluation process.”
To make matters worse, the GAO found that the USDA lacked a proper peer review of those decisions. The people involved in “peer reviewing” the decisions were the same people involved in making the decisions, an egregious violation of the USDA’s own internal guidance. There are many more examples of the USDA’s careless work found by the GAO. But officials at the USDA seem unfazed. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack responded to the GAO: “We stand firm on both the quality of our work and the difference it made in millions of people’s lives. We owed it to the American people to get the reevaluation done well and get it done quickly—and that’s exactly what we did.”AEIdeas
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