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I'm not very familiar with how US politics works internally, but how would it play out in practice? My experience with my (admittedly flawed) government is that

• strangattractor 2y ago
  It usually plays out like this. The Congress person from Alabama where the fuel tank is built refuses to ok spending for NASA's other projects (or some other desirable project that needs to get done) unless the design requires things be built in their district. Since the tanks were previously built there it becomes the easiest way to satisfy their black mail. This may not be explicitly stated other than in meetings with the speaker of the house but it is understood none the less. This is not Congress people directly profiting from this decision but they have to run for office every 2 years and need to have consistent pork returns to keep their constituents happy. There is nothing illegal here in fact the system is pretty much designed to work this way to insure that Federal money is distributed among the states.