COVID-19 "relief" bill
$2.3 trillion
5,593 pages long
Lawmakers given six hours to review before a vote.
$25 million to Pakistan: $15,000,000 for democracy programs, $10,000,000 for gender programs.
$86 million to Cambodia
$130 million to Nepal
$135 million to Burma
$453 million to Ukraine
$505 million to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
$700 million to Sudan
$1.3 billion to Egypt
$40 million for the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, which is not open for business.
Three new museums: the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum ($1 billion), the National Museum of the American Latino and the Coast Guard Museum.
$154 million for the National Gallery of Art
$2.5 million for “Internet freedom programs in closed societies”
$4 billion for New York’s MTA as part of bailouts for mass-transit systems.
$15 billion earmarked toward grant programs for live entertainment venues such as Broadway.
$7 billion toward expanding broadband access.
$1.4 billion for a construction of a wall on the southern US border.
The bill makes racehorse doping, mailing of e-cigarettes (A rule saying the US Postal Service can no longer deliver e-cigarettes.) illegal and makes it illegal to stream video content without authorization (violating copyright laws with unauthorized online streaming will become a felony punishable by five years in prison for first offenses and 10 years for repeat offenses.).
It establishes the National Centers of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence, Liquefied Natural Gas Safety and the Automated Systems and Human Factors in Aircraft.
And they tried to push a $15 dollar minimum wage which failed.
WTF does ANY of this have to do with COVID relief for American citizens?
If this does not show you how out of control government spending is I don't know what will.