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Lost Earmarks Cost States Billions in Highway Funds

USA TODAY found at at least 3,649 earmarks in which not a single dollar has gone toward its intended purpose, sometimes because of simple, sloppy mistakes, which have cost states $7.5 billion in lost funding.

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