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Federal funding package includes litany of earmarks

(The Center Square) — Congressional leadership announced Sunday they had brokered a deal to fund the government, but whether the votes are there to pass it will be revealed this week.

The more than 1,000-page deal includes six appropriations bills that total $435 million and hundreds of pages of earmarks, a practice of allocating federal tax dollars to local spending projects often used to win vote…

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