President Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture on Friday said the “silver lining” of the looming cutoff of SNAP food aid is a greater awareness of the downsides of what she derided as a “bloated” and “corrupt” program.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, who says she won’t dip into a contingency fund to pay for SNAP amid the government shutdown, said there are some positive aspects of the prospect of 42 million Americans losing their benefits.

“The silver lining in all this is that we’re having a national conversation on our SNAP program,” said Rollins, whose agency oversees the program. “This has sort of shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated, so broken, so dysfunctional, so corrupt, that it is astonishing when you dig in.”

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