2019 Pig Book: $15.3 Billion in Earmarks, Millions for Fruit Flies, Brown Snakes

Flanked by Republican lawmakers, Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, unveiled the 27th edition of the Pig Book laying out how Congress approves billions of dollars in earmarks in government funding bills, including $9 million this year to quarantine fruit flies and almost $1 million to eradicate brown tree snakes in Guam. “The 2019 pig book shows that Congress still has pork barrel fever and their only prescription has been more earmarks,” Schatz said. “Sadly, for the seventh time since Congress adopted an earmark moratorium in 2011, Citizens Against Government Waste has unearthed earmarks in the appropriations bills.”-- More...