Rep. Ralph Norman@RepRalphNorman · Jan 21, 2026

It’s time for TRANSPARENCY. Congress is rushing through $14.3 BILLION in 7,611 earmarks. Buried inside the FY26…

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A thread criticizing $14.3 billion in congressional earmarks in the FY26 minibus bill, highlighting specific allocations to immigration legal services, gender-affirming medical care for youth, arts organizations, and activist groups as examples of wasteful spending while the national debt exceeds $38 trillion.

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It’s time for TRANSPARENCY. Congress is rushing through $14.3 BILLION in 7,611 earmarks. Buried inside the FY26 minibus is MORE spending taxpayers never approved: 🧵(1/8)
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Chuck Schumer slipped $500,000 to NY NICE, an immigration legal group that serves people regardless of status. Another blank check from Washington.
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$2 MILLION to a San Diego children’s hospital offering gender surgeries for minors and hormone treatments. This isn’t healthcare. It’s ideology…funded by taxpayers. stoptheharmdatabase.com/hospital/rady-…
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Another $3,002,000 to Hennepin Healthcare, a Minnesota clinic pushing puberty blockers, hormones, and surgical referrals for kids. Parents continued to be sidelined and common sense ignored!!
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$1,599,000 to Northern Light Health, a Maine gender clinic providing hormone therapy to vulnerable children.
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Meanwhile, Schumer sends $1 MILLION to the NYC Met Opera for “elevator upgrades.” The same opera now stages a show mocking ICE agents at the southern border.
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Add $375,000 for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts, an arts group pushing DEI activism, and another $3 MILLION to the Fifth Avenue Committee, a Brooklyn-based activist organization expanding welfare and housing mandates in New York.
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The U.S. is NEARLY $38.5 TRILLION in debt. Families have been cutting back while Washington isn’t. Corrupt “community project funding” ends NOW. norman.house.gov/news/documents…