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What is a pork barrel?

What is a pork barrel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now rare) A barrel used to store pork. [from 18th c.]
  2. (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood. [from 19th c.]
  3. (politics) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters. [from 19th c.]
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Yet it will be hard to please congressmen while cutting their pork barrel, and as usual, no one seems very eager to cut middle-class entitlement programs.
A pork barrel project meant to revive the American cruise industry sinks under its own weight.
And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks.
And the pork barrel got even larger as other special interests and lobbyists jumped on board.
Some refer to these things as pork barrel politics and perhaps they are right, unfortunately.
Congress is going to vote on whether or not to stop distributing its money to states and local governments on a pure pork barrel basis and start doing it on the basis of risk.

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