{"id":4089,"date":"2020-04-09T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:16:48","slug":"could-democrats-and-republicans-both-benefit-from-bringing-back-earmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/could-democrats-and-republicans-both-benefit-from-bringing-back-earmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Democrats and Republicans both benefit from bringing back earmarks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/could-democrats-and-republicans-both-benefit-from-bringing-back-earmarks\/andrew-sidman-pork-barrel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel.png\" data-orig-size=\"289,432\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Andrew Sidman Pork Barrel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel-201x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4090 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel.png 289w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Andrew-Sidman-Pork-Barrel-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>Discussions about bringing back earmarks have\u00a0<a class=\"js-external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2018\/01\/12\/trump-just-praised-earmarks-heres-what-the-fuss-is-about\/\">flared up<\/a>\u00a0on Capitol Hill in recent years. Democrats in particular have expressed interest in reviving procedures whereby members of the House of Representatives could have more power to direct appropriations to specific projects in their home districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just can\u2019t expect somebody over there at OMB, who knows nothing about the areas we represent, to have all the knowledge,\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"js-external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/02\/07\/house-democrats-shelve-plan-to-bring-back-revamped-earmarks-112016\">said<\/a>\u00a0Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio).\u00a0<a class=\"js-external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/the-bipartisan-movement-to-bring-back-earmarks-in-congress\">Some Republicans<\/a>\u00a0agree, and argue that Congress needs to\u00a0<a class=\"js-external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/the-bipartisan-movement-to-bring-back-earmarks-in-congress\">reclaim spending authority<\/a>\u00a0it has given away to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/fixgov\/2020\/04\/09\/could-democrats-and-republicans-both-benefit-from-bringing-back-earmarks\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions about bringing back earmarks have\u00a0flared up\u00a0on Capitol Hill in recent years. Democrats in particular have expressed interest in reviving procedures whereby members of the House of Representatives could have more power to direct appropriations to specific projects in their home districts. \u201cYou just can\u2019t expect somebody over there at OMB, who knows nothing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-brookings-institution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-13X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}