The Center for Renewing America launched on Friday a primer on the roughly $8 billion in earmarks in the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The Center for Renewing America (CRA) — the conservative organization founded by former Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought — released a detailed primer on many of the more egregious earmarks in the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, which passed through the Senate yesterday with bipartisan support.

The 2022 omnibus spending bill is particularly significant, as it is the first bicameral funding package to include earmarks in over ten years. Conservatives have long opposed the inclusion of earmarks, believing it to lead to waste, fraud, and abuse. The CRA noted that the Republican-led Congress banned the practice of earmarks in 2011 following the Tea Party movement.

“This congressional ban has remained in place for over a decade, serving as one of the few notable fiscal and ethics victories in recent memory,” the CRA noted.

The conservative organization observed that lawmakers are resurrecting earmarks during a time when Americans continue to grapple with skyrocketing inflation, a war in Ukraine, and rising energy prices.

To help Americans better understand what earmarks their lawmakers voted for, the CRA launched a primer on the spending. It documented some of the more deplorable earmarks in the omnibus spending bill, including this list of 33 projects which totals to over $56 million:

The CRA emphasized that earmarks lead to corruption, public distrust, wasteful spending, and skewed priorities.

“Lawmakers should forcefully resist the temptation to resurrect earmarks and restore the ban immediately,” the CRA concluded in their primer.”This inherently corrupt practice will only grease the skids for passing massive bills that are harmful, accelerate inflation, increase unethical abuse of taxpayer money, and further public distrust between the American people and their representatives.”

Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.