$23.7 Billion in Earmarks. One of Them Was a Door for a Museum Worth $5.8 Billion.
Congress released this year’s Congressional Pig Book in May, and the top line is $23.7 billion spread across 8,392 earmarks, the fourth-highest total since anyone started keeping score in 1991. That’s already a lot of money. But the number that actually made me stop scrolling wasn’t the total. It was the door. Senator Chuck Schumer …