Do you think the reporter bothered to tell Linda Preast that Meals on Wheels isn't a government program?
neither helpful, nor the point.
Well, it sort of is the point. Why is it the federal government's role to be funding programs like Meals on Wheels to begin with? These are questions that some never ask, because they think the government should be involved in anything and everything - sort of like Chuck Schumer grandstanding on local New York TV very Sunday about the "outrage" of the week that's often not properly within the federal government's purview to begin with. The "there oughta be a law" crowd never admit that oftentimes, no, there shouldn't be - particularly on the federal level.
