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What lawmakers slipped into the $460 billion spending package
Mar 12, 2024
Earmarks promise to spend money on specific projects requested by individual members of Congress.
Trump's support of earmarks gets a mixed reception
Jan 10, 2018
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 […]