What's In The COVID Relief Government Funding Bill

After an incredibly tough year of the pandemic exacerbated by government-mandated lockdowns, the federal government is about to pass a government spending package. Here's what's in it:

Foreign Aid

• $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan

• $1,300,000,000 for a "Foreign Military Financing Program" in Egypt

• $45,000,000 for fighting corruption in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

• $33,000,000 to the Economic Support Fund for Communist Venezuela

• $505,925,000 for Latin America And The Caribbean

• $1.4 billion for "Asia Reassurance Initiative Act"

• $132,025,000 for the country of Georgia

• $3,047,612,000 for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund

• $461,375,000 for Columbia

• $135 million to Burma

• $85.5 million to Cambodia

• $453,000,000 in aid to Ukraine

• $130 million to Nepal

• $700 million to Sudan

• $25M to Pakistan

• $193 million for federal HIV/AIDS workers stationed abroad to buy new cars

Domestic Spending

• $40,000,000 for the Kennedy Center

• $154,000,000 for the National Gallery of Art

• $818,192,000 for the Smithsonian

• $167,000,000 for Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

• $14,000,000 For W. Wilson Center

• $1.5 million for the Appropriations Committee’s “Office of Diversity and Inclusion”

And for you, the taxpayer: $600