Why not just eliminate earmarks and pork from the budget and give the President the line-item veto on unnecessary spending provisions?
All options will need to be on the table. But our fiscal challenges are so massive that eliminating all pork or earmarks and giving the President a line-item veto (the power to reject specific provisions of a bill, such as spending items, without vetoing the entire bill) would only address a tiny fraction of our overall fiscal gap.
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