behind your $600 check

[waterdog]

1 $300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg.. 147 DA FUQ?!
2 $10,000 per person for student loan bailout
3 $100,000,000 to NASA, because, who knows why.
4 $20,000,000,000 to the USPS, because why not
5 $300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts - because of it
6 $300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities/ because no one even knew that was a thing
7 $15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training / for when the GI Bill isn't enough
8 $435,000,000 for mental health support
9 $30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund/ because that will keep people employed (all those zeros can be confusing, that’s $30 BILLION)
10 $200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program
11 $300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting / NPR has to be bought by the Democrats
12 $500,000,000 to Museums and Libraries / Who knows how we are going to use it
13 $720,000,000 to Social Security Admin / but get this only 200,000,000 is to help people. The rest is for admin costs
14 $25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building / I kid you not it's on page 136
15 $7,500,000 to the Smithsonian for additional salaries
16 $35,000,000 to the JFK Center for Performing Arts
17 $25,000,000 for additional salary for House of Representatives
18 $3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the VA
19 $315,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs
20 $95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development
21 $300,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance
22 $90,000,000 for the Peace Corp pg. 148
23 $13,000,000 to Howard University pg. 121
24 $9,000,000 Misc. Senate Expenses pg. 134
25 $100,000,000 to Essential Air carriers pg. 162. This of note because the Airlines are going to need billions in loans to keep them afloat ($100,000,000 is chump change.)
26 $40,000,000,000 goes to the Take Responsibility to Workers and Families Act This sounds like it's direct payments for workers pg. 164
27 $1,000,000,000 Airlines Recycle and Save Program pg. 163
28 $25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg. 165
29 $492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg. 167
30 $526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021 pg. 168 (what are the odds that doesn't go unused) Hidden on page 174 the Secretary has 7 days to allocate the funds & notify Congress
31 $25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg. 169
32 $3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg. 172
33 $5,000,000 Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General pg. 172
34 $2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg. 175
35 $5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg. 175
36 $2,500,000 Office of Housing
What DOES ALL of this have to do with the Virus?

[Pineywoods]

Man p!ssed off doesn't even come close to describing how I feel when I look at that list!

[skipetex]

Just wait till Kameltoe signs her first one in a couple years. It will make this one look like a shopping list.

F#%&ing Democrats will be the death of this nation.

[Charles]

Man p!ssed off doesn't even come close to describing how I feel when I look at that list!

makes a fella wanna grab his pitchfork and go bang on the doors of congress!

[CWendling]

is this all verified?

[bow4my2]

I won’t be getting one

[Pineywoods]

is this all verified?

Yes and that isn't even the full list. It doesn't even account for the billions being sent to multiple countries.

[Laketex]

Man p!ssed off doesn't even come close to describing how I feel when I look at that list!

You think that's bad...here's a few more. And the full pork stuffed document.

$169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476).
Unspecified funds to “continue support for not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to both women and men in a coeducational environment” (page 1477).
$198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and $23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).
$130,265,000 to Nepal for “development and democracy programs” (page 1485).
Pakistan: $15 million for “democracy programs” and $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486).
Sri Lanka: Up to $15 million “for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter,” which is a type of patrol boat (page 1489).
$505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to “address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491).
$461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counternarcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496).
$74.8 million to the “Caribbean Basin Security Initiative” (page 1498).
$33 million “for democracy programs for Venezuela” (page 1498).
Unspecified amount to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago “for assistance for communities in countries supporting or otherwise impacted by refugees from Venezuela” (page 1499).
$132,025,000 “for assistance for Georgia” (page 1499).
$453 million “for assistance for Ukraine” (page 1500).

https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20201221/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf

I fact checked the first 3. They're in there.

[Calrob]

Yes and that isn't even the full list. It doesn't even account for the billions being sent to multiple countries.

Like $10,000,000 for Pakistans gender program....

Im not paying taxes ever again

[JonBoy]

This bill was a combo platter of the omnibus spending bill (5000 pages) for 2021 and the covid relief bill (600 pages). A lot of the items in OPs list were likely from the omnibus spending bill that get funded yearly...so it has absolutely nothing to do with covid relief.

Yes and that isn't even the full list. It doesn't even account for the billions being sent to multiple countries.

or the billions given to tax exempt entities here in the U.S....churches got $7.4B in the first round of stimulus and who knows how much in this one. I'm still scratching my head as to how those who don't pay our taxes are entitled to tax payer money...including foreign aid

and just to be clear, only ~20% of the $900B is going to direct stimulus payments and unemployment relief. The rest is pork spending including huge amounts of corporate welfare

[Charles]

Y'all remember when Pelosi criticized Trumps $2,500 tax cut as "crumbs"? Now she's all giddy about giving us back $600 of our own money.

That ***** is going to burn in hell.

[stickerpatch59]

just think how much good we could do here with that give away money; and I don't mean giving it away here either.

maybe not add to our national debt... because you can't pay down debt with borrowed money.

[flywise]

There is a sucker born every minute........and they all happen to be American citizens

[Calrob]

Taxation without representation comes to mind alot lately

[BrianL]

Is another $900,000,000,000.00 in debt added to the 7,600,000,000,000.00 they already spent THIS YEAR!