30 min
Omnibus and Earmarks, Oh My! Budget Watchdog All Federal
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- Politics
In a world where regular order doesn’t exist. And the biggest, baddest, spending bill on the block is an Apex Predator known as “Omnibus”. The earmarks are out there my friends… and they are slippery suckers. By some accounts… the appropriations earmarks in the $1.5 trillion fiscal 2022 omnibus bill that President Joe Biden signed last Tuesday might be perceived as both an exercise in restraint and obfuscation. Joining Steve Ellis to make the podcasting magic happen is a bona fide forensic earmarkist – TCS Senior Policy Analyst – Josh Sewell.
In a world where regular order doesn’t exist. And the biggest, baddest, spending bill on the block is an Apex Predator known as “Omnibus”. The earmarks are out there my friends… and they are slippery suckers. By some accounts… the appropriations earmarks in the $1.5 trillion fiscal 2022 omnibus bill that President Joe Biden signed last Tuesday might be perceived as both an exercise in restraint and obfuscation. Joining Steve Ellis to make the podcasting magic happen is a bona fide forensic earmarkist – TCS Senior Policy Analyst – Josh Sewell.
30 min