You have it totally backwards. They didn't stick this stuff into a COVID bill, they stuck COVID stuff into the appropriations bill.
Ok fine. Whichever way you want it to be, frontwards or backwards, my personal opinion is that the 2 shouldn't have been packaged together. Because unfortunately there are too many people who think and believe like the above rant.
What's wrong with having one bill for only COVID relief and letting all the news channels showcase that and put it in people's face and then a separate bill for all the other stuff (foreign aid and what-not) that nobody talks about?