Maryland’s Democratic U.S. senators Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen are looking to earmark hundreds of millions of dollars for special projects.
A large chunk of that funding, around $311 million, is specifically requested for nonprofit organizations.
That raises transparency and accountability concerns, according to Jeremy Portnoy, an investigative journalist with Open the Books, a government spending watchdog.
“We’re constantly finding … nonprofits that don’t have their finances in order, conflicts of interest, partisan advocacy, which is not supposed to be part of earmarks,” Portnoy said, describing his organization’s general research into earmark spending nationwide – not just in Maryland.
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