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Statehouse budget writers agreed on a smaller, $350 million spending package of one-time dollars to fund some 450 earmarks covering so-called “community investment” projects after .
Future budgets will include similar amounts for both chambers and no direct funding for nonprofits, legislators said.
Vulnerable incumbents and deficit hard-liners are joining forces in an unlikely partnership, pushing House GOP leaders to put earmarks on the table to head off a government funding fight this fall.
It makes perfect sense that Democrats have brought back the practice of congressional earmarking: Democratic leaders want to entrench their own power and enrich themselves.
Adam Schiff is unapologetically touting his commitment to earmarks for local causes — like homelessness and drug treatment programs — as he seeks the Senate seat long held by Dianne Feinstein.
For the federal government, the 2024 fiscal year started in October of last year, but this funding — at least a portion of it — didn’t make it through Congress and to the President’s desk until last .