Seven of the biggest anti-spending conservative House Republicans have secured nearly $123 million worth of earmarks in the fiscal 2024 appropriations bills they say they’ll oppose unless GOP leaders agree to steeper cutbacks.
The seven Republicans constitute a third of the 21 GOP lawmakers who wrote last week to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pledging to withhold their support for the bills due to spending $115 billion more, on net, than the agreement they believe they extracted from McCarthy in January calls for.
They include Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who eked out a razor-thin victory in her 2022 race and faces a rematch next year; Clay Higgins of Louisiana; Keith Self of Texas and four Floridians — Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna and Bill Posey. Amounts range from $50 million for Gaetz — good enough to put him 15th on the overall House list — to one $1.75 million project Self secured.
