pork barrel
Example Sentences
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“Water projects came to epitomize the pork barrel; they were the oil can that lubricated the nation’s legislative machinery.”
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024
He survived to become a crusader for campaign finance reform and against pork barrel spending.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2016
Yet Mr Aquino reacted first by defending the pork barrel, demanding its abolition only after a public outcry.
From Economist • Jun. 26, 2014
"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
