repercussions of this bill. here he is. >> every page of this washington spending shows just how irresponsible and out of touch democrats are. >> reporter: now, this build back better package marks the late in a long line of government spending programs that date back to the early days of the pandemic during the donald trump administration. let's look at a few of these here. 192 billion in march 2020 responding to covid, also that month 2.2 billion in the cares act, another covid relief program, rather. then a month later $511 billion for businesses struggling from covid. as you can see the theme here, these are all covid-related n. december 2020, 99 15 billion for covid -- 915 billion. in march 2021, $1.9 trillion the american rescue plan, $1.2 trillion this month for