Senator: Americans Would Be ‘Shocked’ If They Saw Where COVID-19 Relief Funds Went

Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) speaks during a Senate Special Committee of Aging hearing on “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Seniors: A Look at Racial Health Disparities” at the US Capitol in Washington, on July 21, 2020. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

A Republican senator said that only about 10 percent of a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package actually went to dealing with the pandemic, asserting that American taxpayers would be alarmed by where the funds are going.

“Our office dug into it and found a lot of it interesting that much of it is just coming to the surface. ... There is so much money sloshing around in that $2 trillion bill, only 10 percent of it went to COVID,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) told Fox News on Tuesday. “We’re going to see more and more of this over time. It’s part of the inflation bomb.”