Citizens Against Government Waste Compiles Earmark Database as ‘Potent Reminder’ Against ‘Costly, Inequitable, and Corrupting’ Practice

U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History in Washington on Oct. 22, 2019. Shannon Finney/Getty Images

House Democrats, and some Republicans as well, want to restore earmarks—taxpayer-funded special interest projects once dubbed “the gateway drug to federal spending addiction”—but Tom Schatz has a new tool to stop them.

“The earmark database is a potent reminder that the practice is costly, inequitable, and corrupting,” the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) president told The Epoch Times on April 21.