Article from Fox News by Alex Pappas.
An anti-government waste group has identified millions of taxpayer dollars allegedly frittered away on “absurd nature-related earmarks,” including $9 million to “quarantine fruit flies” and $13.8 million to “manage wild horses.”
Those revelations are inside the 2019 Congressional Pig Book released Wednesday by Citizens Against Government Waste. That report identifies what it describes as egregious examples of pork-barrel spending in Congress, drawn from fiscal 2019 appropriations bills. This year, the group said it identified $15.3 billion in earmarks, an increase of 4.1 percent from the $14.7 billion last year.
“Pushing pork does not drain the swamp and it won’t restore integrity to Washington,” Tom Schatz, the president of Citizens Against Government Waste, said in a statement.
Schatz wrote in an op-ed for Fox Business Network that “perhaps the most flagrant earmark” this year is $16.7 million for a research organization called the East-West Center, added by Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii.
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Pardon the question but regarding these studies, surveys of whatever they might be called, who or what benefits from the referenced expenditures?
These Politicians need to be held accountable for these wasteful spending. No doubt they are probably Democrat Politicians.
And the elderly of the United states go without money to pay for hospitals and medicines…yup, the House doesn’t have it’s house in order, just spend on nothingness. Typical and stupid of them. Fruitflies? Really?
Our laws for funding Congressional actions are far too easy to use any way a Congress person wishing to spend money. It seems a spending amendment can be attached to important and timely bills without pause.
The lavish benefits and retirement for members of Congress are insane. But that’s for another discussion.