Sentences with phrase «big slush fund»
«It's a pretty big slush fund,» one official close to the governor said.
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Having kids and a mortgage kind of limits the amount of toys I can buy now (I have to be more selective at least) so I've always put it on the back burner until I have a bigger slush fund to go all out.
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For years, they were a big market team being managed like a medium market team, with an owner who was more interested in using the team like a personal slush fund.
More from E.J.: «New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.»
New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.
E.J. McMahon of the watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy wrote that the new budget includes nearly $ 500 million in «the biggest, murkiest, pork - barrel slush fund in Albany — and perhaps any state capital — has ever seen.»
It is stuffed full of billions of dollars of slush funds that the governor and legislative leaders can spend on just about anything, including giving hundreds of millions in tax dollar subsidies to companies and hospitals that make big campaign contributions,» said John Kaehny, director of the group Reinvent Albany.
«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.