(CNSNews.com) — The price tag for congressional legislative spending provisions — commonly referred to as "earmarks" — added by the Republican-controlled Congress for Fiscal Year 2016 totaled $5.1 billion, reflecting an 88.9 percent increase since 2014, according to Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW).
The non-profit group, which focuses on federal waste, fraud and abuse, released its 24th annual report on earmarks — pejoratively referred to as pork-barrel spending — Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Republican National Committee is lashing out at Donald Trump's charges that the party's presidential nomination process is "rigged."
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus (ryns PREE'-bus) responded to the GOP front-runner's intensifying rhetoric on Twitter late Tuesday.
