In Michigan, an earmark to replace lead service lines in St. In the set of earmarks for the Homeland Security appropriation bill, Republican Congressman Trent Kelly of Mississippi got $3 million for a DeSoto County Operations Center project, while Democratic Congressman Andy Kim of New Jersey got only $637,195 for a similar project in his district. But the average amount of money a project in the same category in a Democratic district got was $772,303. Our analysis found that the average amount of money a Republican district got for an “Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies”–type project was $1.68 million. Meanwhile, a library renovation and expansion plan in Whitefield, New Hampshire, which is represented by Democrat Annie Kuster, was granted only $1 million. Or in the Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, district represented by Republican Congressman Guy Reschenthaler, a library improvements project got $5 million. But construction for a fire station in Southbridge, Massachusetts, which is in Democratic Congressman Richard Neal’s district, got $1 million. For instance, a fire station construction project in Bridgeport, Ohio, which is in Republican Congressman Bill Johnson’s district, got $2.25 million. Republicans, on the other hand, sought fewer projects-256-but were given a whopping $706.43 million for theirs.īut the imbalance is nonetheless stark. Democrats requested 279 projects and were given a total of $246 million for them. In total, an analysis by The New Republic found, House Republicans were set to receive nearly three times what Democrats were getting in allocations for earmarks, the pork-barrel requests members make for federal spending on projects in their districts. The difference in spending was even more jarring. That was despite the fact that of the 535 earmark projects across three categories, there were 23 more proposals in Democratic districts than in Republican ones. These Democrats were furious because projects in Republican districts were, almost to a T, getting more funding than Democratic ones. The House Appropriations Committee had begun rolling out its list of bills as part of the annual Fiscal Year 2024 Community Project Funding. In the middle of May, a number of House Democratic staffers and lawmakers were irate.
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