Most Americans approve of how President Joe Biden is handling infrastructure and there is strong bipartisan support to include road, bridge, and port improvement and clean drinking water to the infrastructure bill being considered in Congress. Funding eldercare and affordable housing are also popular with the public but these features […] Read more »
Why Biden Might Avoid the Policy Sinkhole That Swamped His Predecessors
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary was often described as a contest over whether the country needed a return to normalcy or sweeping change. Joe Biden may have found a way to split the difference. Democrats have proposed or enacted trillions of dollars in federal spending, usually under the seemingly nonideological […] Read more »
The huge Democratic bet on ‘bricks and butter’
The spending proposals that Senate Democrats plan to begin advancing this week amount to a massive gamble that the party can simultaneously advance two of its longest-standing economic goals without generating a political backlash or overheating the economy. … In some ways, the Democrats’ bet that they can simultaneously turbocharge […] Read more »
Biden nets positive marks for handling pandemic, but vaccine resistance, Delta concern remains
Six months into President Biden’s administration, Americans are less apprehensive about the year than they were at the start of it. They think the battle against the pandemic is going somewhat well, though that’s tempered now by concern about the Delta variant. Most say their finances are okay, and most […] Read more »
Yes, Democrats are bickering. But Biden’s wish list is gaining traction
As he pursues his $4-trillion domestic spending wish list, President Biden has had a lot more than Republican opposition to contend with. He has found himself squeezed between two wings of his own party: progressives who want the biggest possible expansion of federal programs and moderates like Sen. Joe Manchin […] Read more »
American Public Opinion and Infrastructure Legislation
Infrastructure is now on the front burner in Congress, with the debate not so much over whether to pass an infrastructure bill, but rather what form it should take. … I have previously noted the strong general interest Americans have in tending to the nation’s infrastructure, most recently summarizing the […] Read more »