{"id":6241,"date":"2026-05-15T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=fc98d5f6f096979903cab4a66d5575aa"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:25:00","slug":"citizens-against-government-waste-releases-2026-congressional-pig-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Against Government Waste Releases 2026 Congressional Pig Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GovWaste?src=hash\" >#GovWaste<\/a>--Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pigbook.org%2Freporting%2Fpig-book&amp;esheet=54535238&amp;newsitemid=20260514212683&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=2026+Congressional+Pig+Book%2C&amp;index=1&amp;md5=3475ac344c0efc528f56e7b6aa99a5ba\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\"><i>2026 Congressional Pig Book,<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i>the 33rd edition of the group\u2019s expos\u00e9 on pork-barrel spending.<\/p><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260514212683\/en\/744828\/4\/CAGWlogo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260514212683\/en\/744828\/22\/CAGWlogo.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260514212683\/en\/744828\/4\/CAGWlogo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260514212683\/en\/744828\/21\/CAGWlogo.jpg\" \/><\/a><p>\nCAGW President Tom Schatz <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fv%2F1EKzMNF3WL%2F&amp;esheet=54535238&amp;newsitemid=20260514212683&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=was+joined&amp;index=2&amp;md5=6fcb7bed04940d45081063168a58b5e3\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">was joined<\/a> in a press conference at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., by <b>Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.)<\/b>.<\/p><p>\n<b><i><span class=\"bwuline\">2026 Congressional Pig Book<\/span><\/i><span class=\"bwuline\"> facts:<\/span><\/b><\/p><ul class=\"bwlistdisc\">\n<li>\nThe <i>2026 Congressional Pig Book<\/i> exposes <b>8,392 earmarks costing<\/b> <b>$23.7 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2026.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\nThe <b>$23.7 billion in FY 2026<\/b> <b>is the<\/b> <b>fourth highest total <\/b>since CAGW released the first <i>Pig Book<\/i> in 1991, behind the $29 billion in 2006, $27.3 billion in 2005, and $26.1 billion in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\nSince the first <i>Pig Book<\/i> was released in 1991, <b>CAGW has identified 140,826 earmarks costing $484 billion.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>\n<b><span class=\"bwuline\">Earmarks and Oinkers:<\/span><\/b><\/p><ul class=\"bwlistdisc\">\n<li>\n<b>Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) <\/b>received <b>\u201cThe Whole Hog Award\u201d<\/b> for <b>96 earmarks <\/b>costing <b>$484,654,000<\/b>, the most of any member of Congress.<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) <\/b>received <b>\u201cThe House of Pork Award\u201d <\/b>for <b>14 earmarks<\/b> costing <b>$250,050,000<\/b>, the most in the House of Representatives.<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) <\/b>received <b>\u201cThe Taxpayer\u2019s Nightmare at the Museum Award\u201d <\/b>for <b>$1,500,000 <\/b>for a new door at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which held net assets of $5.8 billion in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) <\/b>received <b>\u201cThe Paving the Road with Pork Award\u201d <\/b>for <b>$20,000,000 <\/b>for improvements to the Hal Rogers Parkway, named after a fellow Kentucky appropriator.<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.) <\/b>received <b>\u201cThe Singing a Sour Note for Taxpayers Award\u201d<\/b> for <b>$950,000 <\/b>for two earmarks funding two opera houses.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>\n<span class=\"bwuline\">CAGW President Tom Schatz said:<\/span><\/p><p>\n\u201cEarmarks continue to be the most corrupt, costly, and inequitable practice in the history of Congress. More than 99 percent of Democrats got earmarks compared to 72.3 percent of Republicans. As usual, earmarks also benefited senators far more than representatives in FY 2026. Senators requested 6,299 earmarks costing $13,566,023,692 compared to 4,886 earmarks costing $8,648,072,276 requested by representatives. In FY 2026, the 92 members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, making up only 17 percent of Congress, were responsible for 41.3 percent of the earmarks and 38.8 percent of the money. Earmarks therefore continue to provide the most benefit to the most powerful legislators. The members of Congress who restored earmarks willfully ignored or forgot why this wasteful practice was first subject to the moratorium. The <i>2026 Congressional Pig Book<\/i> is a must read for taxpayers and shows why earmarks should be permanently banned.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"bwalignc\">\n<a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcagw.org%2F&amp;esheet=54535238&amp;newsitemid=20260514212683&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Citizens+Against+Government+Waste&amp;index=3&amp;md5=0abf2179d6e5576495efc6e45dfb3d3c\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">Citizens Against Government Waste<\/a> is the nation\u2019s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.<\/p><br\/> <b>Contacts<\/b> <br\/><p>\nAlexandra Abrams\n<br\/>(202) 467-5310\n<br\/><a  href=\"mailto:aabrams@cagw.org\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">aabrams@cagw.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;#GovWaste&#8211;Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its 2026 Congressional Pig Book, the 33rd edition of the group\u2019s expos\u00e9 on pork-barrel spending.<br \/>\nCAGW President Tom Schatz was joined in a press conference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}