Republicans balked at the Biden administration’s request for billions more in pandemic funding, citing a lack of transparency to show Congress how the trillions of dollars already allocated to address COVID-19 have been spent.

The U.S. government has used about $5 trillion in pandemic relief out of about $5.7 trillion in total aid appropriated by Congress since the onset of the pandemic. So far, slightly over $3.6 trillion has been paid out to recipients such as the Small Business Administration, which oversees the Paycheck Protection Program established in April 2020.