earmarks

Mar 12, 2024
What lawmakers slipped into the $460 billion spending package
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Earmarks promise to spend money on specific projects requested by individual members of Congress.
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May 13, 2021
Earmarks are back, and they could be key to Biden’s infrastructure plans
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Earmarks — money members of Congress request for projects back home — could make it easier for lawmakers to get on board.
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Mar 13, 2021
Earmarks make a comeback in a closely divided Congress
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Opponents argue earmarks opened the door to corruption and waste. Supporters argue they’ll help make Congress more effective.
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Jan 11, 2018
Trump’s support of earmarks gets a mixed reception
President Donald Trump, at a bipartisan meeting on immigration yesterday, voiced support for earmarks – the system, effectively banned by the GOP back in 2010, which allowed members of Congress to attach special language to funding bills to direct money to their pet projects. How did earmarks get such a bad reputation in the first […]
Dec 31, 2012
Would ‘earmarks’ have helped fiscal cliff talks?
'Bridges to Nowhere' and other pork-barrel spending used to be the grease for deal-making in Congress.