Last week, after getting criticized in their home districts, Democrats finally announced plans to scrap two major pet projects from their so-called “COVID-19 relief” bill, a $1.9 trillion piece of legislation mostly consisting of provisions not directly related to public health spending.
These scrapped projects, which Democrats voted for and passed in the House already, included hundreds of millions in funding for a bridge in New York and a tunnel in San Francisco, coincidentally not far from where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer call home. This episode is emblematic of the overarching problems with this current COVID-19 spending bill: Not only is it completely partisan, it also contains billions in wasteful spending that does not support reopening the economy, returning teachers and children safely to school, or providing vaccines to everyone who wants one.
