This comparison is unfair. The cost of just the first stimulus checks was ~269b[0] and the second ~ $464b[1] and these are the lower estimates I've seen. For comparison the 2008 bailout cost ~498b[2][3], possibly less after the government made some of it back. So no, the government isnt spending more on bailouts for the rich than on covid relief for the rest.

0. https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/01/what-to-know-about-the-sec...

1. http://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-would-2000-checks-cost

2. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/heres-how-much...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program