The Epoch Times By Mark Tapscott
Nine of the 16 Senate Republicans who received earmarks in 2022 are members of the upper chamber’s appropriations committee and, despite being in the minority, they got twice as much pork as their Democratic colleagues on that powerful panel.
The nine appropriations Republicans gained fewer total earmarks, trailing the 13 earmarking Democrats on the committee 743 to 498, but the total value of the GOP earmarks was almost twice as big, $2.2 billion versus $1.3 billion.
The Epoch Times analysis is derived from a database prepared by the Bipartisan Policy Center, based on official congressional information. The Epoch Times only counted earmarks on which an individual senator or representative was listed as the “First Requestor.”
