earmarks

Heightened focus on $12.7 billion in earmarks amid $34 trillion in national debt. ‘Earmarks turn Republicans Democrat,’ one senator says.

Republican lawmakers are pressing congressional leaders to allow amendments against controversial special interest provisions.

Local and community projects funded by tax money allocated by Congress, commonly known as “earmarks,” are often wasteful and conducive to corruption, said the CEO of a government watchdog organization.

Through tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests, OpenTheBooks.com has compiled and made public almost all U.S. money taxed and spent, at every level of government, across all 50 states.