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What is a pork barrel?

What is a pork barrel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now rare) A barrel used to store pork. [from 18th c.]
  2. (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood. [from 19th c.]
  3. (politics) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters. [from 19th c.]
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Some refer to these things as pork barrel politics and perhaps they are right, unfortunately.
And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks.
A pork barrel project meant to revive the American cruise industry sinks under its own weight.
We have pork barrel projects that our opponent supported and scandals where he didn't take a position.
Yet it will be hard to please congressmen while cutting their pork barrel, and as usual, no one seems very eager to cut middle-class entitlement programs.
The administration offered the nation economic self-interest, technical wonkery, and a smidgen from the pork barrel.

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