The projects have been criticized as a source of unnecessary pork-barrel spending.

One very important step is to cut all the unnecessary spending that you guys like to do!

Given these other needs, many experts have expressed concern about unnecessary spending in health care.

Republicans call for a cut on unnecessary spending in order to create government infrastructure that will boost the economy.

Obama plans to pay for the tax changes while bringing down the budget deficit by cutting unnecessary spending.

Reducing unnecessary spending is the price we need to pay in order to reduce our spiraling national debt.

You get another warning to pull your horns in and cut unnecessary spending Wednesday.

Such events should not serve to open the floodgates for unrelated and unnecessary spending.

These items should not be seen as unnecessary spending, but as investments in our future.

But holding the line on unnecessary spending is always a solid position for a Republican candidate.