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2022-05-17 09:05
Pork barrel phrase
The spending of federal funds for local projects designed to make voters or legislators happy and gain a majority of the votes.
An increase in expenditures might mean the politician is performing pork barrel.
I expect pork barrel to take place more often when political competition increases.
It has become the conventional wisdom that pork barrel plays a central role in the electoral strategies of members of Congress.
This expression alludes to the fatness of pork, equated with political largesse since the mid-1800s. [c. 1900]
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