Citizens Against Government Waste released their annual 'Pig Book' of the worst pork barrel spending projects.
Government watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste released the fiscal year 2024 edition of their 'Pig Book' on Wednesday, chronicling what they considered the worst pork barrel spending offenders of the year. At the announcement, held just off Capitol Hill, several anti-earmark lawmakers also offered reaction and analysis to CAGW President Tom Schatz’s proverbial lowlights of government spending. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
McClintock claimed that the current interest payments on the U.S. national debt now exceed the Pentagon’s defense spending for the first time in history. 'And history warns us that countries that bankrupt themselves aren't around very long,' he said. Schatz highlighted several findings by his team at CAGW, including a total of 8,222 earmarks in the past fiscal year, costing a combined $22.7 billion.
Good questioned whether the GOP can therefore retain its nickname as the 'Party of Fiscal Responsibility.' 'We're in an unprecedented era of debt to GDP that we haven't seen since World War II. We didn't just defeat Nazi Germany or imperialist Japan to accumulate that debt. We have absolutely nothing to show for it: Nothing to celebrate and memorialize in terms of saving the world as that Greatest Generation did,' Good said.
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