The story doesn’t have to “hold up”. It was repeated, again, by Chris Wallace just now on FNS, to show how the Trump budget was causing millions of deserving elderly to starve. It’s proof of the Goering/Hitler strategy of repeating a big enough lie often enough to become true.
“It was repeated, again, by Chris Wallace just now on FNS”
Who watches that obnoxious dick? Fox news has a dwindling list of “watchable” anchors.