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• Special-interest government spending
• Like some wasteful government spending
• Spending for a pol's pet project
• Self-serving legislation
• Pol's self-serving appropriation
• Politician's pet projects
• Spending for political pet projects
• Political patronage
• Politician's project

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of pork barrel English)