It's almost like letting the country's bills go to make it rain cash during Covid to desperately buy the hopeless coming election, was going to have negative consequences...

No one can reform programs anymore, without their opponents calming they are cutting/removing it. The DNC uses that same trick every-time and the GOP have before too. If someone overhauls a program, moving A to B, you instantly have all the corporate mouthpieces declaring how terrible it is that A was removed. The public fall for this every time, the old pelosi-reversal trick.