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New Analysis: The House Folds, as Expected: the December 11 Stopgap Heads to the President https://t.co/k89IF2yhQw

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Tully Lake in Royalston, MA holds back floods for Athol and Orange. $2,520,000 via @SenMarkey and @SenWarren keeps the Army Corps dam running.

Flood control you never notice is the point.

What dam upstream of you have you never thought about?

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When the House and Senate pass different versions of a spending bill, staff sit in a room and iron out every line until the numbers match. Every line.

Only then does it head to the president's desk.

Guess which chamber usually wins?

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Casper's police fleet is getting new patrol vehicles: $828,000 via @RepHageman.

Wyoming's whole FY2026 haul is 8 projects. This is one of them.

When your state gets so few, who decides which 8 things in an entire state make the cut?

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North Carolina's biggest single FY2026 earmark: $44,700,000 for special operations base upgrades. The state total: $322M across 152 projects.

Military construction quietly dominates several states' hauls.

Is defense money "earmarks" in your mind, or its own thing?

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Great Bay is the Seacoast's nursery: oysters, eelgrass, clean-water science. New Hampshire's estuarine reserve gets a new research facility with $5,000,000 via @SenatorShaheen.

What body of water does your region quietly depend on?

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Every dollar the @foodbankofde saves on utilities becomes meals. Energy upgrades at its Newark and Milford warehouses: $1,130,000 via @SenLBR and @ChrisCoons.

The least sexy, highest-return money in the budget.

Which local nonprofit needs this most where you live?

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Louisiana pulled $584M in FY2026 earmarks. New Jersey, with nearly twice the people, pulled $266M.

The difference isn't need. It's seniority, committee seats, and who asks.

Whose delegation is out-hustling yours?

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The Tennessee River squeezes its freight through one chokepoint: Chickamauga Lock, whose concrete has been growing since 1940.

The $213,000,000 replacement via @RepChuck Fleischmann is the biggest earmark in America.

What invisible infrastructure does your region depend on?

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There is no autopilot for government funding. Congress must pass 12 separate bills every single year or agencies go dark.

They have finished all 12 on time exactly 4 times since 1977.

Would you design it this way on purpose?

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America's only federal lab dedicated to rice is in Stuttgart, Arkansas. It's getting $6,550,000 in repairs via @JohnBoozman.

The varieties bred there are what farmers plant nationwide.

What's the obscure federal facility your state hosts?

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The territories are on the earmark map too. Guam landed 8 projects worth $55.8M. Puerto Rico 10, the Virgin Islands 10, the Northern Marianas 4, American Samoa 1.

Millions of Americans, zero senators, 33 projects.

Fair share or afterthought?

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Three towns are getting new fire stations this cycle: Belgrade, Maine. Louisa, Kentucky. Tybee Island, Georgia. All replacing buildings from another era.

Volunteer departments can't bond their way to a new firehouse. This is often the only path.

How old is your town's station?

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Every police department in Atlantic County trains its K9 teams free at the Corbin City academy, now expanding with $2,630,000 via @Congressman_JVD.

One shared facility instead of 20 departments renting one.

What should the towns around you be sharing?

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California landed 775 of the 8,311 earmarks in FY2026, almost 1 in 10 nationwide, over $1B total.

Per person? $27. Near the bottom. Alaska gets $440 a head.

Should the money follow population, or is small-state leverage the whole point of the Senate?

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Winter mornings at the Eastern Iowa Airport are about to get smoother: a new $10,000,000 deicing facility via @RepAshleyHinson.

Airports you've never flown through quietly got a lot of this year's money.

Which regional airport do you swear by?