pork barrel
Example Sentences
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He survived to become a crusader for campaign finance reform and against pork barrel spending.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2016
They are accused of benefiting from the suspected embezzlement of billions of pesos from the Priority Development Assistance Fund, known as the pork barrel.
From Economist • Jun. 26, 2014
"I don't think we fully appreciated the level of pork barrel tax policy we were engaged in then," Hodge says today.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2011
"A lot of people want to believe our looming budgetary crisis is caused by bridges to nowhere" and other pork barrel projects, said Cato Institute vice president Gene Healy.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2010
And I bake every Saturday, and Shad brings fish on Friday, and they’s a pork barrel full of meal, and we float eggs in a crock of vinegar...”
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
