Date: December 21, 2020
Subject: Advancing Cronyism and Out-of-Control Spending through a $2.3 Trillion Spending Package
Description: This spending package epitomizes the worst of the D.C. establishment's spending habits. This bill was sold as a COVID-19 response package but actually includes $1.4 trillion in budgetary spending unrelated to the pandemic. The remaining $900 billion was supposedly directed to government responses to the Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Negotiated in secret, without the opportunity for elected officials to offer amendments, this 5,593-page omnibus is the longest bill ever passed by Congress and comes just months after the passage of the CARES Act, another $2.2 trillion spending package. The bill contains carve-outs for every imaginable special interest group in the "swamp", from tax breaks for racehorse owners to $10 million in funding for "gender programs" in Pakistan. While the bill provides $600 direct payments to children and adults earning up to $75,000 a year, the bill represents a cost of $6,925 (plus interest) per every American. ACU believes it is appalling that Congress continues to pass reckless deficit spending while providing lawmakers and the public mere hours to even read the proposals. The spending package was passed via two roll call votes in the House, with the first vote pertaining in part to defense and national security, and the second vote (which is scored here) covering the remaining spending.
Result: Agreed to, 359-53
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