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After a decade-long ban, over $8 billion worth of “congressionally-directed spending (earmarks) requests” were included in the recent 2022 Omnibus bill. Among those, Americans for the Arts estimates that over $300 million were directed towards arts and culture-related projects. A spreadsheet of all the earmarks is available HERE, and users can search for arts-related terms to find specific culturally-related earmarks.