DIRECTED SPENDING
Earmark Database
Track where your tax dollars go through Community Project Funding (House) and Congressionally Directed Spending (Senate) — the modern names for what used to be called earmarks.
Earmark Requests
$300.0M totalBy Category
Party Split
Appropriations Bills
Earmarks were banned in 2011 and returned in 2021 as "Community Project Funding." Click to see the full timeline.
What Are Earmarks?
Earmarks (now called "Community Project Funding" or "Congressionally Directed Spending") are provisions in spending bills that direct funds to specific projects in members' districts.
After a decade-long ban (2011-2020), they returned in 2021 with new transparency requirements: all requests must be publicly posted, no for-profit entities can receive funds, and members must certify no personal financial interest.
Earmarks are limited to 1% of discretionary spending and must be approved through the regular appropriations process.
Earmark data sourced from House and Senate Appropriations Committee public disclosures. Appropriations bills from Congress.gov API. Updated periodically.