Congressional GOP Fiscal Hypocrisy Has No Shame—–Meet The $96 Billion War Contingency Slush Fund

By JEREMY HERB and BRYAN BENDER at Politico The practice of slipping unrelated or pet projects into spending bills for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — from new helicopters to fighter aircraft — has long been derided as deceptive and financially irresponsible. But now lawmakers have taken the budget gimmickry to a whole new level […]