Sure
Then you can single out all the repubs you hate while ignoring the dems
$1,508,300,000 for three earmarks for the F-35 JSF, the fifth-most ever earmarked for the program. The bulk of the FY 2023 earmarks fund the acquisition of 18 aircraft beyond the amount requested by the DOD, including 11 for the Air Force and seven for the Navy.
A small ocean of ink has been spilled
cataloging the many troubles of the JSF. It has been under continuous development since the contract was awarded in 2001 and has faced innumerable delays and cost overruns. Total acquisition costs now exceed $428 billion, nearly double the initial estimate of $233 billion, with
projected lifetime operations and maintenance costs of $1.727 trillion.
$5,000,000 for modernization of three Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). Dubbed by some inside the Navy as the Little Crappy Ship, the LCS has been a disaster since its inception, with problems that include a vaguely defined mission, a lack of
firepower and survivability, and design flaws causing
corrosion.
The latest setback surfaced in May 2022, when an internal Navy
report revealed that half of the ships have been impacted by
structural defects leading to hull cracks. To mitigate the damage, the LCS, whose purpose is to perform high-speed patrols, will be limited to lower speeds, especially in rough waters.
$13,250,000 for two earmarks funding presidential libraries: $7,250,000 for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.); and $6,000,000 for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University in Starkville by Senate appropriator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.).
Sen. Hyde-Smith also added a $20 million earmark for the Grant library in FY 2022, which
opened in November 2017 at a cost of $10 million, and was paid for by Mississippi taxpayers. In two years, Sen. Hyde-Smith has added 160 percent to the original cost of the library via earmarks. This makes about as much sense as hosting the victorious Union general’s library in the Deep South.
Since FY 2003, legislators have added 18 earmarks costing $110.9 million for 11 presidential libraries.
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