Whenever you think the government is stupidly wasting money when there’s a cheaper and more humane solution, you can bet your neck it’s to funnel money toward corporations.
They usually jump through those hoops to obfuscate the trail and pretend there’s some economic complexity. There ain’t, it’s just laundering a corporate subsidy.
This is what the democrats have always been, just now they stopped pretending to care about people abroad or the issues that matter to the voters (and not the donors) and surprisingly that’s still good enough for the blue no matter who crowd.