{"id":1755963,"date":"2022-11-30T06:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755963"},"modified":"2022-11-30T06:18:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:18:12","slug":"banning-earmarks-can-help-republicans-drain-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/banning-earmarks-can-help-republicans-drain-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning Earmarks Can Help Republicans Drain the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbanning-earmarks-can-help-republicans-drain-the-swamp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755963&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/90-136\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">H<\/span>ouse Republicans will<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3739010-house-gop-hashes-out-internal-rules-with-mccarthy-speakership-on-the-line\/\">vote soon<\/a><br \/>\n on whether to bring back the ban on budget earmarks, which are a way for members of Congress to dole out favors using taxpayer money.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ending earmarks would be an excellent opportunity for the new House majority to combat the wasteful and corrupt political culture that has infected the nation\u2019s capital and is strangling the economy.\n<\/p>\n<p>Following public ridicule over wasteful pork spending such as the \u201c<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budget-and-spending\/report\/the-bridge-nowhere-national-embarrassment\">Bridge to Nowhere<\/a><br \/>\n\u201d in Alaska, Congress did away with the practice in 2011, thanks to the wave of conservatives elected in 2010<br \/>\n<span class=\"Link\">because of<\/span><br \/>\n the tea party movement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the temptation to use other people\u2019s money for personal gain proved too strong for Washington to resist for long, and last year Congress<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/08\/18\/earmarks-a-favorite-tool-of-central-planners-are-making-a-comeback-under-biden\/\">brought back budget earmarks<\/a><br \/>\n.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/04\/11\/8-varieties-of-rancid-pork-in-latest-spending-bill\">These earmarks included<\/a><br \/>\n reams of<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/03\/10\/6-examples-of-woke-pork-spending-in-omnibus-spending-bill\">woke projects<\/a><br \/>\n that included funding for left-wing activist groups, initiatives that use the word \u201cequity\u201d as a shield for race-based preferences, and a variety of thinly disguised<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2019\/02\/12\/californias-high-speed-rail-failure-shows-the-insanity-of-green-new-deal\/\">Green New Deal<\/a><br \/>\n boondoggles.\n<\/p>\n<p>We also saw a variety of absurdly wasteful items such as $1.6 million for \u201cequitable growth of shellfish aquaculture industry,\u201d $4.2 million for \u201csheep experiment station infrastructure improvements,\u201d and $3 million for a Gandhi museum in Houston.\n<\/p>\n<p>Now that pork is back on the menu, the House and Senate have proposed<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/majority\/breaking-chairman-leahy-releases-fiscal-year-2023-senate-appropriations-bills\">thousands<\/a><br \/>\n upon<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/majority\/breaking-chairman-leahy-releases-fiscal-year-2023-senate-appropriations-bills\">thousands<\/a><br \/>\n of additional earmarks in pending legislation. Woke waste in this year\u2019s spending bills includes:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1 million for\u00a0<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/zorashouse.com\/\">Zora\u2019s House<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0in Ohio, a \u201ccoworking and community space\u201d for \u201cwomen and gender-expansive people of color.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>$3 million for the\u00a0<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanlgbtqmuseum.org\/\">American LGBTQ+ Museum<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0in New York City.<\/li>\n<li>$477,000 for the\u00a0<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/theequityinstitute.org\/\">Equity Institute<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0in Rhode Island to indoctrinate teachers with \u201cantiracism virtual labs.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>$1.2 million for \u201cLGBTQIA+ Pride Centers\u201d and another $1.2 million for \u201cDreamer Resource Centers\u201d and \u201cadvocacy support\u201d (aka helping illegal aliens) at San Diego Community College.<\/li>\n<li>$3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia.<\/li>\n<li>$750,000 for \u201cLGBT and Gender Non-Conforming housing\u201d in Albany, New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nSilly and absurd earmarks include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2 million for the \u201c<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greatblacksinwax.org\/\">Great Blacks in Wax<\/a><br \/>\n\u201d museum in Baltimore.<\/li>\n<li>$3 million for water infrastructure on the remote island of\u00a0<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._George,_Alaska\">St. George, Alaska<\/a><br \/>\n, which is a cost of over $44,000 for each of the 67 residents.<\/li>\n<li>A $1.1 million solar array in Kirkland, Washington, one of the least-sunny places in the country.<\/li>\n<li>$1.5 million to promote eating outdoors in Pasadena, California, one of the sunniest places in the country.<\/li>\n<li>$1.6 million for the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Vermont. The center is named after Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., \u00a0and he had the audacity to request the earmark.<\/li>\n<li>Two separate earmarks totaling $5 million for the\u00a0<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/uhhm.org\/\">Universal Hip Hop Museum<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0in New York.<\/li>\n<li>$13 million for expanding an airport in Abbeville, Alabama, a rural \u201ccity\u201d of under 2,500.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nWhen House Republicans meet to set internal rules for the next session of Congress, which begins Jan. 3, they can\u2019t plead ignorance about what tolerating earmarks would mean.\n<\/p>\n<p>Congress needs to kick earmarks to the curb and finally get<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/07\/05\/7-charts-show-why-congress-must-get-spending-under-control-immediately-if-not-sooner\/\">overspending<\/a><br \/>\n under control by putting the federal government on a<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budget\/index.html\">diet<\/a><br \/>\n.\n<\/p>\n<p>There is talk of Congress passing a bloated<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/11\/16\/lame-duck-congress-should-reject-bidens-proposed-ukraine-aid-covid-19-spending-binge\/\">omnibus spending deal<\/a><br \/>\n (including earmarks) during December\u2019s \u201clame duck\u201d period before the House majority shifts to the GOP. Republicans in both chambers can stop this from happening by refusing to sign off on such a deal and instead giving the incoming House majority a chance to weigh in and negotiate something better early next year. The alternative\u2014putting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s hands on the wheel one last time\u2014certainly is not a good idea.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fighting waste and inflation while partially draining the swamp by going after earmarks and slush funds would be a big win for America. Republicans in both chambers should do their parts to make it happen.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM RESTORING AMERICA<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>This article originally appeared in the <\/i>Daily Signal <i>and is reprinted with kind permission from the Heritage Foundation<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans will vote soon on whether to bring back the ban on budget earmarks, which are a way for members of Congress to dole out favors using taxpayer money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}