GOP-led House passes spending package to keep government open, includes $13 billion in earmarks – By Nicholas Ballasy (Just the News) / March 6, 2024
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-K.Y., says the “swamp is back to buying Republican votes for the omnibus with earmarks” and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, says there is “no way any mortal could actually vet all of the earmarks in the 48-hour time period they’ve given us so far.”
The GOP-led House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a 1,050-page spending package that includes nearly $13 billion of earmarks, commonly referred to as “pork barrel” spending.
There are earmarks in the legislation sponsored by members of the Democrat and Republican parties. The spending package contains six appropriations bills totaling about $460 billion.
The first spending deadline in the temporary spending bill Congress passed last week is Friday, March 8. The appropriations bills in the new spending package would last for the rest of fiscal year 2024.
“One Republican Senator gets 8 earmarks in the omnibus today. No one voted to add these and no one gets to vote to take these out. We have gone backwards 14 years, to before the 2010 Tea Party wave,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-K.Y., said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, referring to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “The swamp is back to buying Republican votes for the omnibus with earmarks.”
