Pretend that someone gave you the authority to give funds to organizations for helping people. Now that money is finite which means you only have so much and when it runs out, it's out.
You give money to four programs in the states which help pre-schoolers, the elderly, the poor, and the homeless. Every year you ask for more money. About a 3% increase yearly.
Your own internal audits show that about 40% of that money is wasted due to fraud, waste, or unauthorized purchases (perks for the people in charge). It has been this way for many years but you or your officers have either been unable or unwilling to rein the abuse. After all, it's only the taxpayer's money.
New leadership comes in above you and they look at the books and decide that a 40% cut in funds is required. Now you can buckle down and find the fraud, waste, and abuse (which requires firing people and prosecution) or you can go to the press and claim the new executive is unfair and heartless. The executive decides to discontinue the program entirely maybe to be replaced later on by a better ran program which you will not be a part of.
Whose fault is it that the needy will go wanting? Yours (for not doing your job), your accountable subordinates (for abusing their authority), or the new executive (for being a heartless bastard)?