re: #216 Belafon

This description bothers me:

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The point of these policies is for politicians to improve their districts. That’s supposed to be the whole point of representing your district.

As wasteful as pork barrel politics was, it at least offered a way to target a Joe Manchin or Sinema with specific benefits or withhold benefits as punishment for not getting in line. Seems much harder when that kind of leverage is gone.