Millions of dollars in incentives for a television show about the lives of emergency responders, city-issued bonds for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Despite a history of persistent controversy, nonprofit groups said the nation’s legislators remain deeply enamored with “pork ...

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 ...