GOP: “We can’t do $1200 checks. That’s irresponsible. Think of the deficit.”
Also GOP: “As part of a COVID deal we are allocating $1.4 billion to build a xenophobic campaign stunt wall that falls down in the wind even though we promised voters other countries would pay for it.”
"But it's because of COVID" they've been doing this long before COVID. They just used COVID as an excuse to rapidly accelerate the massive transfer of wealth they've been conducting against us for over a century.