The budget that wasn’t

The omnibus budget bill failed yesterday evening after enough GOP members bolted to scuttle the deal. The deal, which would have kept the government in operation through next summer was derided as being strewn with earmarks and wasteful spending.
It’s the kind of rhetoric that works these days, but that view is far too oversimplified. Earmarks Bad! is an easy political slogan, but not all earmarks are created equal.
So, who lost out yesterday? From the list of the assembled requests from the NC delegation coastal residents lost in a big way as did, military families, researchers, rural residents and struggling cities.
A breakdown of the projects to follow.