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Anonymous 2w

No bid??? More focus needs to be on that part. That means other companies didn’t have any opportunity to get the contract, so there was no price competition etc. Before this admin, this wasn’t as common

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Anonymous 2w

Whaaaat? Trump is making unilateral decisions to help his rich friends that negatively impact the general population and promote a more authoritarian state? This has GOT the first time he has ever done that!

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Anonymous 2w

We’re supposed to hate billionaires but ignore over $2 billion being defrauded from one our social services programs?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

You’re not wrong it’s crazy & of course they’re using Palantir

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

“The BPA will include a one-year base period, with two (2) one-year option periods for a total potential ordering period of three (3) years. The estimated BPA ceiling is $300 million.” This is all in support of the National Farm Security Action Plan (which includes combating fraud in SNAP, along with a ton of other things)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Their entire justification for this is that Palantir is the only accredited provider that has experience with USDA systems, and any other contractor would need to do significant work, leading to delays. And they want to do a blanket agreement because individual contracts would be too fragmented and wouldn’t be good for negotiation

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Well I mean Vance is Peter thiels bitch

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 2w

$2B in SNAP fraud? What’s the source for this?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

2% of SNAP would be $2B SNAP is a $100.3B program

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 2w

Ah ok. USDA FNS is saying the fraud rate is 1%, so approx $1B by their stats. Obviously all fraud is bad, but keep in mind the scale of SNAP: there are 42M people on it. Small errors here add up very quickly. Compared to other government programs like Medicare, SNAP is pretty good. Medicare has $54B in “improper payments”, although that’s more than fraud and also includes duplicate payments, underpayments, overpayments, and other issues

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