CAGW Names Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Chuck Fleischmann May 2024 Porker of the Month
20 Mayo 2024 - 11:28AM
Business Wire
Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named House
Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Chuck
Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) its May 2024 Porker of the Month for
receiving $236.8 million for the single largest pork-barrel
earmark.
Rep. Fleischmann has received a total of $273.3 million in
earmarks in fiscal year (FY) 2024, which is a massive 855.6 percent
increase from the $28.6 million that he secured in FY 2023. The
earmark that Rep. Fleischmann has received for an Army Corps of
Engineers water project is nearly double the amount of the second
highest earmark for FY 2024. Members of Congress like Rep.
Fleischmann have willfully ignored or forgotten why earmarks were
first subject to the moratorium. Earmarks are a corrupt, cynical,
and lazy method of governing, and the practice also benefits the
most powerful legislators.
CAGW President Tom Schatz said, “Earmarks are back to bite and
members of Congress like Rep. Fleischmann are primarily responsible
for swindling taxpayers out of their money. They are the most
corrupt, costly, and inequitable practice in the history of
Congress and should be permanently eliminated rather than
celebrated. Rep. Fleischmann is again showing his complete
disregard for any fiscal responsibility. Earmarks are not a path to
unity; they are a road to fiscal ruin for taxpayers. For receiving
$236.8 million for the single largest pork-barrel earmark, Rep.
Fleischmann was an easy choice for this month’s Porker.”
Citizens Against Government Waste is a
nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste,
fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two
decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers
and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the
taxpayers.
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Alexandra Abrams (202) 467-5310 aabrams@cagw.org