Rep. Ted Budd: Drain the swamp, eradicate earmarks

Published March 18, 2020 4:00am ET



According to Gallup, the approval rating of Congress has not topped 30% in over 10 years. President Trump was elected to drain a Washington swamp that voters deeply distrusted and felt was not working for them.

Nothing epitomizes what’s wrong with Washington more than pork barrel spending in the form of congressional earmarks. According to Citizens Against Government Waste, $15.3 billion was spent on earmarks last year. Since 1991, Congress has doled out over 111,000 earmarks worth nearly $360 billion.

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