Castle’s reasons include confidentiality for the beneficiaries. It may hurt the constituents’ chances for getting funding elsewhere if the federal government publicly shoots them down, he said. It also may hurt their feelings if Castle is the one to shoot them down during his own vetting process.
“Some of these requests, in my opinion, are off the wall,” he said. “They don’t fall into a good public purpose whatsoever, and I don’t want to embarrass anyone in that circumstance by announcing what we accept or don’t accept.”
um, ok…