What Is Pork Barrel Politics? Pork barrel politics refers the legislative practice of slipping funding for a local project into a broader budget, even when said project may have little or nothing to ...

AUSTIN. Texas -- Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-partisan watchdog group, unveiled their annual list of leaders who have asked for the biggest congressional earmarks -- so-called pork barrel ...

In the past, lawmakers wore federal projects delivered to their districts as a badge of honor. Moreover, they viewed voting for spending cuts as politically risky. About fifteen years ago, two ...

When the government reopened, so did, unfortunately, the bipartisan special interest spending buffet. The deal that reopened the government, which President Donald Trump signed into law, contained 862 ...

President Elon Musk and Vice President Donald Trump have promised to “rein in out-of-control federal spending and reshape a lazy workforce.” The nonprofit Citizens Against Government Waste has ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) seems all but certain to run for president, and voters need to know about a uniquely concerning part of her record. She has overseen an explosion of earmarks — the ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Labor, challenging the legality of pork-barrel spending. Pork-barrel refers to the ...

Critics see the appropriation as the latest example of "pork-barrel science"—a direct appeal to Congress for construction funds in the absence of peer review for quality and need. Supporters argue ...

The Philippines and corruption go together like pork and mustard. But a fresh inquiry into the country’s so-called pork-barrel culture has produced some of the largest popular protests to hit the ...

There is no pork barrel—discretionary funds for lawmakers—in the proposed P6.7-trillion national budget approved by the House of Representatives, nor in the proposed P243 billion in unprogrammed funds ...