MANILA, Philippines — Executive Secretary Ralph Recto on Monday maintained that the P6.7 trillion national budget for 2026 is free from any form of pork barrel. Recto stated after President Ferdinand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...