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A few sources I have seen put the entire multi year cost of world war 2 in 2021 dollars at $4.1T.

Where as it looks like congress has spent ~$4.5T fighting covid in the last year and that's before looking at fed balance sheet increases of ~$3.5t.

So we have solidly spent more than WW2, almost double in a year or covid relief, a lot of which was fed balance sheet expansion(ie printed money)

I independently came up with this but it looks like others have made the same observation

In fact the CT makes the claim that covid relief has almost equaled the cost of all American wars combined.

Pretty mind blowing.