WASHINGTON, D.C. — A $460 billion spending package that Congress approved earlier this month contains millions of dollars for local projects that Northeast Ohio’s congress members added to the legislation through a controversial process known as “earmarks.”
Earmarks direct specific sums of money in a spending bill to projects sought by a particular Congress member. The package that President Joe Biden signed into law on March 9 contains more than 6,600 earmarks that cost around $12.7 billion. Congress reinstated earmarks in 2021 after a 10-year ban and they’ve been going strong ever since.
