How to Use pork barrel in a Sentence

pork barrel

noun

• And he was best known for bringing federal projects, earmarks or pork barrel, to his state.
  — NBC News, 2022-03-20
• Victors may draw lawmakers who did not back them during the campaign to fall in line with pork barrel spending and backroom deals.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 2022-10-31
• Fawell was the chief sponsor of 23 bills that eliminated some $2 billion in pork barrel projects, his wife said.
  — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 2021-11-14
• There’s not enough pork barrel that can be shipped to West Virginia to attempt to rent Joe Manchin’s vote on big issues.
  — John Fund, National Review, 2020-10-11
• The infrastructure bill is a sweeping public works and jobs bill with something for everyone, the type of pork barrel measure that used to be the bread and butter of Congress.
  — New York Times, 2021-08-01
• The lower house of Congress approved a bill that had passed the Senate and will take funds from pork barrel appropriations and government payments to buy TV and radio time for parties.
  — Anthony Boadle, The Christian Science Monitor, 2017-10-06
• In some years, Warner has played host on his farm to a pig roast, an incongruous gesture for political figures practiced in pork barrel legislation perhaps but a productive initiative nonetheless.
  — David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2021-07-22
• Moreover, trucking relies on the public provision of highways, a perpetual pork barrel boondoggle which wastes $18 billion annually.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 2022-06-28