Dems maneuvering to bring back earmarks under slick new name: ‘Community project funding’

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Dems maneuvering to bring back earmarks under slick new name: ‘Community project funding’
February 28, 2021 | Jon Dougherty

Majority Democrats in the House and Senate are preparing to bring back so-called “earmarks,” which have been widely criticized in the past because they are utilized to fund pet projects in individual lawmakers’ districts or states.

But they won’t be called earmarks this time; Democrats have rebranded them as “community project funding.”

The House Appropriations Committee introduced a plan on Friday to bring back earmarks, and the Senate is said to be working on its own bill, Fox News reported.

Earmarks were eliminated by the GOP House majority after Republicans retook control of the chamber following the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2010. But the Appropriations panel said the process is going to be “reformed” this time around to ensure that any funded project goes to a “genuine need and not subject to abuse.”

When they were still in use, critics of earmarks noted how they would often be used in a manner that contributed to waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

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Dems maneuvering to bring back earmarks under slick new name.  That would be depending on the meaning of the word is, is.  slick willy and hill, ever threats to Americas survival, (they sure know how to manipulate fools.)