News Roundup and Comment

Due to holiday specials, this week's news round-up came early but still had plenty to offer. Some of the stories included:

--More money was spent on non-COVID items than on true COVID relief in the roughly 2.4 trillion dollar pandemic spending package. It's a whopping 5,593 pages long and legislators had only hours to review it.
--Kentucky Senator Rand Paul denounced the COVID relief bill, saying that it's everything Republicans say they don't believe in.