Rand Paul debuts March Madness bracket — for earmarks in $1.2 trillion spending bill

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Rand Paul debuts March Madness bracket — for earmarks in $1.2 trillion spending bill
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Senator Rand Paul debuted his own version of March Madness with a bracket of the government's worst earmarks in the new proposed spending bill.

started this week, arguably one of sports fans’ favorite times of the year. Millions of people tune in to see college basketball teams from all over the country face off in a single elimination tournament in a bracket of 64 teams until only one is left standing as champion. Embracing that spirit of“U.S. Senator Rand Paul announced his 2024 March Earmark Madness Tournament consisting of 16 of the most egregious earmarks in the $1.

The “Shameful 16” bracket connects an important political concern that many people are not aware of to the pop culture phenomenon of the college basketball tournament, which makes it more relatable to the country’s voters. After all, what better way to cope with theof the No. 3 seed Kentucky Wildcats losing to the No. 14 seed Oakland Golden Grizzlies than realizing the government wants to spend $1.

Other outlandish earmarks included in the “Shameful 16” include $250,000 for the Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Archives, named after former Ku Klux Klan chapter leader and senator, proposed by Sen. Joe Manchin ; $2 million to the University of Maine for the construction of a kelp and shellfish nursery, proposed by Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King ; $388,000 to Columbia University in New York, a private university with a $13.6 billion endowment, proposed by Sens.

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