Ditch COVID Spending Spree: Congress Can Save $1.16 Trillion By Returning To 2019 Budget Trajectory

Ditch COVID Spending Spree: Congress Can Save $1.16 Trillion By Returning To 2019 Budget Trajectory

By Deroy Murdock via The Daily Signal | June 02, 2025 Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything. Thankfully, the global pandemic is a speck in the rearview mirror. Only a few diehards cling bitterly to their masks and grow misty with lockdown nostalgia.Restoring spending to its trajectory in fiscal year 2019—the last before COVID-19 wandered out of China’s Wuhan I…