About $675 million earmarked for Texas projects is in limbo as Congress careens toward shutdown

Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune

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The Texas congressional delegation has secured about $675 million to pay for community projects across the state in federal spending bills for the next fiscal year. But the funds, informally known as earmarks, are all in jeopardy amid the threat of a government shutdown.

Lawmakers returned to their districts last year empty-hande