Data from the Bipartisan Policy Center reveal that congressmen in the House Freedom Caucus requested earmarks in last month’s omnibus bill—a move at odds with the conservative caucus’s critical previous statements on earmarks, but possibly in line with private discussions among its members.
“Earmarks are the currency of corruption. The @freedomcaucus opposes earmarks, whether in the 117th Congress or any future Congress,” the House Freedom Caucus’s official Twitter account wrote in February 2021, shortly before the 2011 moratorium on earmarking came to an end.
