Chad Wahlquist
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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Do you know anybody that's becoming a farmer?
I mean, it would be super base to be a large-scale farmer.
More people should do it.
You get big-time loans from USDA.
You have to go through the process.
And they were actually doing a loan modernization effort right now trying to make that better.
like usda will fund it for you you got to pay it back but you can like get the interest rate low low rate subsidized yeah yeah i mean one of our uh administrators at usda he like pull up his phone one day and he's like look it's a planting day for me and it was his john deere app wow it's like the most advanced you know like uh he had all these tractors going and there's still people sitting in the tractors but it's to the point where it basically could be fully automated so i mean you can get yourself a couple thousand acres and just start you know growing corn or weed or cotton like cotton and then you know whatever
Well, if you don't mind, instead of screwing around, I'd like to focus on SNAP for that question.
So SNAP is funded by the federal government, but it's administered by the states.
So something that we're doing right now, and it was one of the first things that our secretary did on our first day, was she did a data call to all the states that we want all of your SNAP data to understand.
Because it's our responsibility as the funder of this program
to understand the integrity like to verify the integrity of the program yeah so we put a request out there but it has to come from every single state yeah and a lot of the state programs they're not technical or they've got contractors that you know it's just a difficult thing to get us the data uh but then there's also a bunch of states that are just not complying you know for whatever reason which it shouldn't be a problem i don't understand what the problem is um but the importance of so that program that's a hundred billion taxpayer dollars a year like that's pretty substantial
That's an area where we really want to have all angles of the data available so that we can deploy AI and become really smart in detecting fraud.
And we want to get it to the point where if somebody's committing snap fraud, we should be able to, it's like your card, right?
If somebody stole your card and did a transaction that wasn't recognized, like your card shut off, right?
So we want to get to the point where we're very intelligent and we're confident enough in the system that we can do that.
When there's fraud detected, it's off immediately.
Because it's an important program.
We want to be able to support people that can't support themselves.
But it's not arguable that there's a massive amount of fraud in there.
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