Trick: There Are a Dreadful Number of Earmarks | Citizens Against Government Waste

Trick: There Are a Dreadful Number of Earmarks

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For the third year in a row, members of Congress grossly increased the cost and number of earmarks.  CAGW’s 2019 Congressional Pig Book exposed 282 spine-chilling earmarks, an increase of 21.6 percent from the 232 in fiscal year (FY) 2018.  The cost of earmarks in FY 2019 was a horrifying $15.3 billion, an increase of 4.1 percent from the $14.7 billion in FY 2018.  Even more frightening was the 125 percent increase in the cost of earmarks and the 73 percent increase in the number of earmarks since FY 2017.

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