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Dear John,

*The "2020 Congressional Pig Book" is here! [ [link removed] ]*

Earlier today in an exclusive online *press conference [ [link removed] ]*, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released the "2020 Congressional Pig Book", which exposed *274 earmarks* costing taxpayers *$15.9 billion* in the appropriations bills that fund the federal government for fiscal year (FY) 2020. These earmarks waste vital taxpayer dollars to fund parochial and non-essential pet projects.

[ [link removed] ]While the number of earmarks decreased by 2.3 percent over the 282 earmarks in FY 2019, the total cost increased by 3.9 percent of the $15.3 billion in FY 2019. More troublingly, the year's $15.9 billion is only 3.6 percent less than the $16.5 billion spent in FY 2010, the last year before the earmark moratorium. Since the first "Pig Book" was issued in 1991, CAGW has uncovered *111,417 earmarks* costing taxpayers *$375.7 billion*.

The release of the "Pig Book" on Tax Day, as well as two days after the announcement that the monthly budget deficit reached an all-time high of $864 billion in June, makes it clear that the time is ripe to eliminate earmarks permanently.

Among the egregious examples of pork-barrel waste highlighted in the "2020 Pig Book "are $2.1 billion for 22 additional, unrequested F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, a program plagued with cost overruns and delays; $25.8 million for wild horse and burro management, the most ever earmarked; and $16 million for Save America's Treasures grants, which over the years has funded hundreds of local museums and theaters.

CAGW was joined at the press conference by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Reps. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), Bill Flores (R-Texas), Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). Pre-recorded messages were also shared from Sens. (R-Ind.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).

CAGW President Tom Schatz's op-ed on the "2020 Pig Book" appeared on *FOX Business [ [link removed] ]* this morning.

*Click here [ [link removed] ]* to read the "2020 Pig Book Summary".

*John, you can also get your own printed copy of the 2020 Congressional Pig Book Summary by making a tax-deductible contribution of $25 or more to CAGW today. [ [link removed] ]*

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