In a comprehensive analysis of polls on major proposals in the proposed reconciliation budget—related to health care, the environment, education, safety net programs and more—all 28 receive majority support, in most cases large majorities. For all proposals, this includes majorities of Democrats and independents. Among Republicans, majorities support 14 of […] Read more »
Vaccine hesitancy eases in teeth of the delta surge
Vaccine hesitancy has subsided in the face of the delta surge, with the share of Americans who are disinclined to get a coronavirus shot now just half what it was last January. Support for mask mandates is broad and President Joe Biden’s approval for handling the pandemic has dropped sharply. […] Read more »
As Congress debates, most Americans back Biden’s trillion-dollar spending bills
The ambitious and expensive Democratic spending bills being debated on Capitol Hill have a big advantage: Most Americans support them. The $1 trillion infrastructure bill was backed by 63% of Americans in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll. And the $3.5 trillion budget plan, the most significant expansion of the […] Read more »
U.S. Public Opinion and the $3.5 Trillion Senate Budget Plan
Fast on the heels of the Senate passage of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, Senate Democrats have now advanced a $3.5 trillion “soft infrastructure” budget plan. This sprawling bill includes a laundry list of Democratic policy initiatives designed to create jobs, improve Americans’ working and living conditions, improve access to […] Read more »
Biden’s Buy American push is good politics but bad economics
With votes in the Senate to advance his bipartisan compromise last week, President Joe Biden took a big step toward upgrading America’s infrastructure. And he took a small step toward ensuring Washington can upgrade less of it. That step backward came with Biden’s move last week to stiffen requirements that […] Read more »
Voters favor Biden’s infrastructure plan
Any careful reckoning would conclude that polling on massive, multipart legislative packages is beset by problems. … No voter could possibly know all the policy choices, programs and funding sources contained in these legislative tomes, so they can’t possibly have a real, pre-existing preference for or against them. Yet, we […] Read more »