Fiscal hawks slam ‘worst’ 2024 earmarks from both parties totaling $22B in spending
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Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., a member of the House Budget Committee, characterized earmarks as lawmakers’ act of "robbing St. Petersburg to pay St. Paul – for projects that St. Petersburg doesn’t benefit from and St. Paul doesn’t seem worthy enough to spend its own money on." Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
"When a local government proposes an earmark, what does it say? It's saying that the project is so low on its priority list it doesn't dare spend their own taxpayers’ money -- But, they're perfectly happy to have taxpayers in other communities foot the bill for them," McClintock said. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
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