Fruit Fly Quarantine Program News Today

Program in california. earmarking is really bad because it incentivizes members of congress to look for these massive spending bills in exchange for relatively small earmarks that could total a few million dollars or a few thousand dollars. >> we all remember the shrimp running on the treadmill. they sneak these things in too because they are not talking about shrimp but fruit flies, $9 million for the fruit fly quarantine program. >> that is right and they hope many of us wont notice. many memb...

22% spike in earmarks, this year cost more than 15 billion in taxpayer money, including 14 million for wild horse and burrow management, 12 million for aquatic plant control program, 9 million for fruit fly quarantine program and a study in 2011. joining me tom, president of citizens against government waste. we see this every year, there is a tick-up and in which areas are we watching? >> across the board, harris, up to 15.3 billion, more than double fiscal year 2017 and more than half of the r...