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The House Approves 7,611 Funding Earmarks Totaling Over $14 Billion

Date: January 24, 2026

The uniparty is back in action, as predicted.

We’ve Restored Regular Order

No Backdoor Deals

How many Democrats did it take?
How many earmark bribes?

The Way the System Is Designed

“For the FIRST TIME in years, Congress is actually doing the work the way the system was designed.”

Thanks. I’ll make some notes.

“We passed all 12 FY26 appropriations bills, ending the era of bloated omnibuses and CRs.”

This will pass the Senate the way it really is.

Q: What’s that?
A: A bloated omnibus bill.

Please note the House packaged six bills together as one, and will send it to the Senate as a one big omnibus bill.

A Triumph

Before we declare a triumph Mr. Speaker, can you please address the earmarks?

We Cut Spending

Spending cuts? Where precisely? Measured against what?

CBO’s baseline projections (pre-any new legislation) already include expected discretionary funding levels, with the overall FY 2026 deficit projected around $1.7–$2 trillion.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act reconciliation package from 2025 added trillions to deficits over a decade.

Earmarks

ETHANOL. One pressure point was about a push by farm state lawmakers for year-round E15 gasoline – to help midwestern corn farmers. “33 percent of all U.S. corn produced is used for ethanol,” said Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), who held out for promises of action on ethanol by the Speaker.
EARMARKS. Conservatives were unhappy with a number of earmarks in this final package, as they were allowed to offer an amendment to get rid of nearly 1,000 Senate earmarks. That lost on a vote of 291-136.
GOP GRUMBLING. 76 House Republicans refused to go along with the Freedom Caucus, as the earmarks easily survived. “With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?” asked Rep. Keith Self (R-TX).
EARMARK LIST. Of course, the Congress makes it nearly impossible to give you a nice list of earmarks. Thankfully, the National Taxpayers Union Federation spent the time to put together an Excel spreadsheet of the 7,611 earmarks in the 2026 funding bills.

The bullet points on Earmarks are from Jamie Dupree’s substack. Thanks!
The vote to kill 1,000 earmarks failed 291-136.

You vote for mine and I’ll vote for yours.

Well it’s only $14 billion. It could have been much worse. But does anyone think these $2 trillion deficits don’t matter?