House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered up a bald-faced lie on Tuesday when a CNN host asked the California Democrat about House Democrats' coronavirus relief bill.

"Everything we're suggesting just relates to COVID-19," Pelosi claimed. "It's not changing policy except as it applies here."

Pelosi's claim is completely false.



In fact, the COVID-19 bill offered up by Democrats, which was a whopping 1,400 pages and would have cost taxpayers more than $2.5 trillion, included dozens of provisions completely unrelated to the COVID-19 crisis.

Included in the Democratic bill were:

A bailout for the U.S. Postal Service

Student loan debt forgiveness

Required same-day voter registration

Airline emissions standards regulations

Study on climate change migration

Collective bargaining provisions

Increased federal minimum wage for companies that accept government loans

Publication of race and pay statistics for corporate boards

House Democrats introduced their own COVID-19 relief bill after Pelosi torpedoed a bipartisan agreement reached by the Senate last week. Then a new agreement was announced early Wednesday morning.

But Democrats' pork-filled bill should be no surprise.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) reportedly told Democratic colleagues last week that the COVID-19 emergency, in which the U.S. economy has come to a grinding halt, presented Democrats with "a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision."

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) engaged in similar rhetoric on Tuesday, defending the delay that Democrats have caused by admitting that they are requiring unrelated provisions for "the health of our democracy."