Exclusive: GOP Reps Take the Gloves Off After Dems Pass $1.9 Trillion 'Atrocity'

From freshman congressmen to long-time fiscal hawks, the third round of coronavirus relief legislation continues to fall under heavy fire in the Republican caucus.

The $1.9 trillion package, complete with billions in earmarks comparable to those in the first two rounds, passed a Democrat-controlled House on Saturday morning by a margin of just seven votes — and it was a hot topic at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, where prominent conservatives lampooned the development both on and offstage.

“This bill is trash. It’s actually an atrocity, if you really think about it,” Rep. Byron Donalds said in an on-site interview with The Western Journal in Orlando, Florida. “Only 9 percent of this bill actually goes towards COVID-19. Nine. Percent.”

“So, we’re spending $2 trillion, apparently — but we only need 9 percent of that money to actually go to actually put shots in the arms and pay people to help put those shots in their arms. You probably have another three to four hundred million dollars going into these direct checks,” the Florida congressman added.

“What we’re not doing is making sure that the checks are going to people who actually have lost their job and are not back to work.”

An extension of the second relief bill, which was signed in December after a months-long wait, the legislation would fund Biden administration vaccination efforts and another slew of direct payments to American families, who saw their prospective relief cut last minute in Senate negotiations last time around.

As the House Republican Study Committee was quick to point out