After the new Coronavirus Relief And Government Funding Bill was signed and Trump took to twitter to knit pick at the bill and mentioned how the people deserve 2,000 instead of $600 (which Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell turned down yesterday) and that the money in the Coronavirus Relief bill should not be going to foreign countries. Well Trump’s supporters ate that up and it was the talk of social media.
I thought to myself. The math doesn’t add up. The Coronavirus Relief is for 908 billion. How can another country get a trillion from a billion? That’s when i did my research. What people fail to realize is that there were multiple bills signed into one as an omnibus. An omnibus spending bill is a type of bill in the United States that packages many of the smaller ordinary appropriations bills into one larger single bill that can be passed with only one vote in each house.
Overall, the COVID-19 relief bill totals more than $900 billion. Americans who meet specific income criteria are expected to get $600. The relief bill includes about $166 billion for the stimulus checks, according to a breakdown from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
- Here’s the group’s breakdown of what else is in the bill:
- $325 billion in aid to small businesses (includes Paycheck Protection Program)
- $120 billion for unemployment assistance ($300 a week for 11 weeks)
- $82 billion for education (such as K-12 education grants)
- $56 billion for health care (includes funding for states to do COVID-19 testing)
- $45 billion for transportation (includes payroll support program for airline workers)
- $83 billion for other spending (such as rental assistance, nutrition programs)
- $40 billion for other tax cuts (such as the Extend and Expand Employee Retention Tax Credit)
The omnibus measure wraps 12 spending bills into one and funds agency operating budgets through Sept. 30 of next year. It combines Democratic priorities such as a $12.5 billion increase over existing budget limits for domestic programs while cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and removal costs by $431 million. COVID-19 has contributed to sharply lower costs. Republicans supported sustained defense spending, energy provisions and longstanding bans on federal funding of abortion. The measure also provides Trump with a last, $1.4 billion installment for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border…
