The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, signed into law in late December 2020, included both routine government funding as well as measures extending or replacing economic relief Congress enacted in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus relief measures accounted for $900 billion of funding in the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending package. The remainder was allocated to other government needs and commitments, both foreign and domestic, leading some reports to confuse those measures with specific economic-relief provisions.
For instance, the bill funded foreign-aid to Israel, Sudan, Jordan and other states, among a wide variety of measures sought by certain legislators, lobbyists and interest groups.