Respectfully disagree. While in theory, earmarks might accomplish carefully targeted spending, they became little more than a mainstay of pork barrel politics in practice.
Candidly, the benefit of keeping spending controls in Congress may currently be outweighed by the advantage of having Trump exercise the kind of cost control he has so successfully employed in business. Congress is incapable.
Trump won’t always be President. the Dems are about to find out the price of ceding too much power to the executive.