While Democrats claim the need is urgent, almost $700 billion of of the funds won't get spent until sometime over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Two-thirds of $90 billion targeting transportation and infrastructure are stretched out over the next 10 years.
A huge chunk of the bill is for things that are unrelated to COVID. An analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found such goodies as a $58 billion bailout of union pension funds, a $23 billion expansion of the earned income tax credit, $34 billion in expanded Obamacare subsidies, a doubling of the federal minimum wage - which will cost taxpayers $54 billion.
All told, the group said $312 billion could be jettisoned without harming actual COVID relief efforts.
Democrats want to dump nearly $8 billion to expand broadband access.
Schools don't deserve to get $129 billion when they've been closed for a year and when teachers' unions are still pressuring governments to keep them closed.
The CBO recently alerted Congress to the fact that the $15 minimum wage Democrats are pushing would throw 1.4 million out of work, and cost taxpayers $54 billion over the next decade.
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