Craig Press: Rep. Lauren Boebert: I helped fix earmarks. Now I’m fighting for new Colorado infrastructure projects including some in Moffat County
4.28.2023
For decades, Congress used earmarks to buy votes for midnight, trillion-dollar spending bills and other wasteful spending. Taxpayer dollars were wasted on things like the $223 million Bridge to Nowhere and the $50 million indoor rainforest. Several members of Congress and dozens of lobbyists were even indicted and went to prison for earmark corruption in the early 2000s.