Discover the history and significance of "pork barrel" in U.S. politics, from its 19th-century origins to its modern-day ...

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 ...

The Commission on Audit (COA) has confirmed non-government organizations (NGOs) linked to businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles received Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel funds from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since President Bush first asked for an energy bill, oil prices have doubled, California suffered a massive energy crisis, the Northeast had a blackout and the US has become even more dependent on ...

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 ...

Revilla is at the center of the two biggest corruption scandals in the country: the pork barrel scam and the ...

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 ...