The incredible congressional spending spree of 2022
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Congress spent heavily in 2022, so much so that even as COVID-related spending fell, enough new spending was passed to keep the annual federal budget above $6 trillion.
Rather than allow total spending to fall back to the pre-COVID levels of $4.4 trillion, Congress kept the pedal to the metal and President Joe Biden was happy to sign every spending bill that reached his desk. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
Lawmakers passed the $1 trillion infrastructure bill in late 2021, allowing the Biden administration to push out a giant wave of grant funding for their favorite projects across the country in 2022. Congress passed the $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, which was more of an environment-health spending bill than an antidote to the high inflation levels not seen in 40 years.