Alabama sacrifices $352 million from its total in last year’s Senate appropriations bills, a nearly 54 percent cut despite both freshman Katie Britt, R-Ala., and earmarking newcomer Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., picking up the torch.
, R-Maine, still had plenty of money to spread around — just $38 million less than the panel’s former leaders had the previous year, for a total of more than $7.7 billion. States seeing their earmark totals increase would receive about $1.7 billion more than the previous year.
Contrast that with the House, where representation is based on population. The top four earmarking states in the House’s fiscal 2024 bills are, in order, the four largest population-wise — California, Texas, Florida and New York — averaging 27.7 million residents. However, it all mostly comes out in the wash in the final spending bills, which, with some exceptions, typically pile the Senate’s earmarks on top of the House’s after removing duplicates sought by lawmakers in both chambers.
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