The Latest Breaking News from Earmarks

​WASHINGTON — The fiscal 2024 appropriations process has just begun, but some patterns in the distribution of earmarks by the majorities in their respective chambers are starting to emerge.

Despite a push to hold down overall spending, earmarks in four House bills have grown from less than $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.

Some high-profile Republicans who did not request earmarks while Democrats ruled the House are seeking them now.

Handouts for tourist-trap museums will be part of the federal funding battleground in the next two years.

As they await President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget request, lawmakers are mulling the prospects for a budget resolution and issuing new guidance for earmarks in appropriations bills. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak discuss the latest timing for a budget release and how lawmakers are mapping…

WASHINGTON — House Republicans’ new restrictions on earmarks in the Labor-HHS-Education spending bill could further imperil passage of an already difficult bill.

House Republicans’ new restrictions on earmarks in the Labor-HHS-Education spending bill could imperil passage of an already difficult bill.

House Republican appropriators have banned earmarks from the Labor-HHS-Education, Financial Services and Defense bills under new rules.

Leaders of two Appropriations subcommittees said they will not allow earmarks in their fiscal 2024 spending bills.