Almost all of this was executive order spending and was beynd the Congresses purview to stop. Biden just kept writing checks and the media told the public that the Republican Congress was not paying the debt like they were supposed to.
Everyone forgets the Executive branch slush fund of $1 trillion a year. The America Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009 was added to the budget for use by the discretion of the Executive branch. That slush fund has been re-authorised by the passage of the continuing budget resolution every year since. This enables the Executive branch to engage in all manner of nefarious spending every year.