Three retiring Republican senators—Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Richard Shelby of Alabama—received more than $1.5 billion in earmarks contained in the Omnibus Spending Bill of 2022, according to a new analysis by a nonprofit government watchdog. The Republican trio’s pork barrel projects were among the 7,506 in the bill, worth a…
Retiring GOP Senators Left Congress With $1.5 Billion in Earmarks in 2022 Spending Package
Retiring GOP Senators Left Congress With $1.5 Billion in Earmarks for Their States
Three retiring Republican senators—Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Richard Shelby of Alabama—received more than $1.5 billion in earmarks for projects in their states as part of last year’s spending bill, according to a new analysis by a nonprofit government watchdog. The Republican trio’s pork barrel projects were among the more than…
Schumer’s $2 Million for Bronx Hip Hop Museum Spotlighted Amid Near-Record Setting Congressional Earmarking Spree
May 2, 2023
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Members of Congress from both parties appear headed to approving a record number of earmarks—tax-funded spending projects in their districts or states that are typically buried in massive omnibus spending bills—including a $2 million award by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to build the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, New York. The…
House Republicans Draw Flack for Changing Earmarks to Favor Rural, Exurban Districts With GOP Officials
March 8, 2023
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House Republican leaders are revamping their approach to earmarks—the controversial tool that enables individual representatives to direct tax dollars to favored projects in their districts — by barring them from four major appropriations bills in the 118th Congress. House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-Texas) and the GOP chairmen of the panel’s 11 subcommittees on…
House Republicans Criticized for Changing Earmarks to Favor Rural, Exurban Districts With GOP Officials
March 8, 2023
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House Republican leaders are revamping their approach to earmarks—a legislative tool that enables individual representatives to direct tax dollars to favored projects in their districts—by barring them from four major appropriations bills in the 118th Congress. House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-Texas), along with the GOP leaders of that panel’s 11 subcommittees, on Feb….
$21 Million Earmarked for Orange County, New York, in Federal Omnibus Spending Bill
January 5, 2023
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In the newly passed $1.7 trillion federal appropriation bill, a sum of $21.2 million was earmarked for 11 local projects in Orange County, according to a review by The Epoch Times. Federal earmarks are money for specific local projects at the request of congressional members. Residents in three municipalities—Middletown, Newburgh, and Kiryas Joel—saw the most money for local governmental and…
A Deeper Dive Into $16 Billion in Omnibus Earmarks
The more than 4,000-page $1.7 trillion “omnibus” government funding bill that President Joe Biden has vowed to sign into law includes around $16 billion in pet projects known as “earmarks” whose supporters see as a way for lawmakers to better serve the needs of their constituents but whose detractors often deride as corrupt and wasteful…
Senate Passes $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill, Rejects Saving Title 42
December 22, 2022
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A round-robin series of crucial last-minute decisions by senators anxious to wrap up their work before Christmas resulted in a decisive 68–29 vote to approve the controversial $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill to keep the federal government open well into the New Year. The vote represented a big win for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…
GOP Senator to Offer Amendment Removing $9.8 Billion in Omnibus Earmarks
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will offer an amendment to the nearly 5,000-page $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that, if adopted by the lame-duck Senate, would erase more than 4,000 earmarks from the measure. “There are, let me get the exact numbers, $9.8 billion worth of earmarks. Thousands of individual projects here—both Democrat and Republican,” Johnson…
US Lawmakers Negotiating Over 7,500 ‘Pork-Barrel Spending’ Earmarks Totaling $16 Billion for Spending Bill
December 15, 2022
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Congress is negotiating more than 7,500 “pork-barrel spending” earmarks totaling $16 billion for a year-long omnibus spending bill. The annual fiscal spending bill, which is meant to keep the federal government funded, will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, in September 2023. A ban on earmarks was instituted in the House of…
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