After $6 Trillion in COVID Spending, Team Biden Is Still Complaining About a Lack of Pandemic Funds

Between March 2020 and March 2021, Congress passed about $6 trillion in spending that, at least in theory, was intended as pandemic relief.

Biden, with the help of then-new Democratic majorities in Congress, wrote and passed what would become a $2 trillion spending bill, the American Rescue Plan, that the White House billed as a "Comprehensive plan to address the public health crisis and resulting economic crisis."

Biden specifically rejected a counteroffer from a group of Republicans that would have spent less than $1 trillion, saying that the only risk was spending too little, not too much.

So you might reasonably expect that the bill would have contained all the pandemic response funding-and in particular all the vaccine funding-the Biden administration would ever need.

With $6 trillion in COVID relief-$2 trillion of which represented a purely Democratic wish list of which vaccines were supposedly a major component-the Biden administration still insisted they didn't have enough.

Less than a year and a half ago, Biden and Congressional Democrats wrote a deficit-funded $2 trillion spending bill that they advertised as a no-expense-spared COVID relief package.

So when the Biden administration complains that they need more money to fight the pandemic, they are admitting, at a bare minimum, to their own incompetence, and perhaps worse.

https://reason.com/2022/06/21/6-trillion-covid-spending-team-biden-complaining-lack-pandemic-funds/