A recent government funding extension has halted federal budget allocations for various community projects across the United States, including a planetarium in Connecticut and business incubators in Georgia. The stopgap measure maintains current spending levels but excludes earmarks, totaling approximately $13 billion, crucial for local development. Lawmakers on both sides expressed disappointment, noting that constituents will miss out on essential improvements and services. The situation underscores a significant shift in congressional authority regarding budget allocations at the start of President Trump's second term.
Those projects and scores of others that had been in line to receive federal funding this year saw that money evaporate this week when Republicans rallied around a stopgap government funding extension to avert a shutdown.
Lawmakers in both parties lamented the demise of the earmarks, which leaves a host of community improvements and programs in the lurch.
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