Earmarks rose in dollar amount from $12.5 billion in 1996 to $29 billion in 2006, Mr. Grumet said, and the number skyrocketed from 1,000 to 14,000.
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Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, said Mr. Trump was taking the right approach in moving cautiously to revamp "a complex set of institutional and economic relationships that have developed over the past 25 years."
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