WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) called out Democrats for pushing a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus package while more than $1 trillion of previously appropriated COVID relief funds remain unspent.
As scored by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the total cost of stimulus laws enacted over the last year amounts to $3.7 trillion. More than $1 trillion of available budgetary resources remain to be spent. Examples of remaining funds include:
- SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program – $280 billion
- Health Spending – $239 billion
- Economic Injury Disaster Loans – $172 billion
- Unemployment Insurance Expansion – $172 billion
- Education Funding – $59 billion
- State and Local Aid – $58 billion
- Stimulus Checks – $52 billion
- Food Stamps – $33 billion
- Child Care and Development Block Grants – $10 billion
- Agriculture – $29 billion
Congressman Higgins issued the following statement:
“There’s over $1 trillion in unspent relief funding that has already been appropriated. That is money already available for economic recovery and the public health response. The Democrat plan to spend another $2 trillion is completely unjustified. It’s fiscally irresponsible. They’re using this bill to ram through unrelated provisions that would destroy small businesses and provide bailouts for Democrat-run state and local governments who’ve mismanaged their budgets for decades.”
