Government Passes Yet Another $2 Trillion Spending Bill

• Author: Jacob Greene
• Posted: 2024-10-19

The United States of America has a national debt that is nearly incalculable. The country owes trillions upon trillions of dollars to foreign entities, and it owes even more to its citizens, who rarely get any of that money back. The government has never stopped taxing its citizens at all since taxing became the law, but they sure have stopped giving that money back on a lot more than one occasion. Since the pandemic hit in 2020, the US's government has authorized the spending of over $20 trillion. That's an insane amount of money, and they just keep spending. Only a week after passing an infrastructure bill for over $2 trillion, the House of Representatives has just pushed through another $2 trillion spending bill that is supposed to "Reimagine the role of government in citizens' lives."

As of right now, there are two important things to note. The first is that the government considers this a benefits package for the people. To hear the Democrats who wrote this and pushed it through tell it, this is a bill that reimagines the role of government in people's individual lives. Some have even outright said that this bill is to help Americans understand that the government's role is to have much more control and responsibility over their lives. Nobody in the public voted for this, but the government feels as if they should be controlling the day to day lives of the citizens - citizens who, mind you, used to be in control of the government until a decade ago. These days, the government is situated above the people, and the Constitution is considered an outdated document that does not need to be followed.

The second important thing of note here is that nothing is written in stone with this bill. It still has to make its way to the Senate, where it will be tweaked and revised and torn apart and put back together. What may benefit Americans in the bill now could end up being torn out or changed, as the bill is sent back to the House for final approval. It's a long and odd process in Congress, but what typically happens is another few hundred billion dollars are earmarked for politicians' pet causes, then the president signs without reading.

How Much Goes to the People?

No matter where one stands politically, it's okay to be honest and to admit the truth about how the government typically operates. This isn't the first huge spending bill the government has passed. Throughout 2020, the government passed three separate trillion-dollar spending bills, and less than 5% of that money actually made its way to people. Where did the rest of it go? No one knows for sure. You see, the government has a committee responsible for overseeing the government's spending, to ensure that the government allowing the government to spend the people's money is held accountable.

If that's tough to read, then you know how odd the system is. As of yet, no one knows how much of this $2 trillion to end up in the hands of people. Parents will likely end up getting more tax credits for their kids and more financial assistance, and racial minorities will get automatic housing assistance just for existing, but that's about as far as it goes. It's not Americans that this bill seems to benefit; rather, it's special interest niche groups, as per usual. Oh, and don't forget that Nancy Pelosi earmarked $200 million of this for a golf course near her house. Nor should anyone overlook the fact that over $5 billion of this money is going directly to organizations that support political campaigns.

At least the government didn't make it so blatant this time as to give themselves another pay raise and benefits increase. That would have been a bad look, only a year after giving themselves thousands of dollars more a year of money that isn't even theirs, while they were closing down 80% of Americans' businesses.

Not the First, Not the Last

This isn't the first trillion-dollar-plus spending bill under President Biden, nor will it be the last. The administration boasts that this is just the beginning, and you can expect a few of these every single year. The difference with this one is that it's supposed to be a big benefits package for American citizens, but the likelihood that it benefits anyone except politicians and corporations is very slim.