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Biden claimed there is “overwhelming bipartisan support” for his spending plans this afternoon, a claim which might come as a surprise to anyone who has heard Republicans discuss the president’s proposals, but which has some evidence.
Biden made the claim in his speech in Virginia, hours after Mitch McConnell poured cold water over the idea of his colleagues backing Biden’s plans.
President Biden claims there is "overwhelming bipartisan support" for his huge social spending plan.
"Now I just have to get some of my Republican colleagues to support it," he says.
The American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion bill to improve infrastructure, is […] popular, but recent polls disagree on how much. According to Fox News, which was in the field April 18-21, the plan is fairly divisive: Although a plurality (49 percent) of respondents support it, almost as many (41 percent) oppose it.
However, it received higher support in other polls, such as CBS News/YouGov on April 21-24 (58 percent support, 42 percent opposition) and ABC News/Washington Post (52 percent support, 35 percent opposition). Monmouth University’s April 8-12 survey, which detailed that the proposal would spend money on “roads, bridges and trains, internet access, power grid improvements, and clean energy projects,” gave the proposal its gaudiest numbers. A full 68 percent of adults said they supported the plan, while only 29 percent opposed it.
Biden has finished speaking and will be heading back to Washington shortly. Today’s trip was the latest leg of the president’s “Getting America Back on Track Tour”, which will see Biden head to Louisiana next week.
Georgia, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina are among the other destinations for either Biden personally or members of his entourage, as they bid to sell the public on his rebuild packages.
Pres. Biden: "For too long we've had an economy that gives every break in the world to the folks who need it the least. It's time to grow the economy from the bottom up." https://t.co/preGJjCONe pic.twitter.com/c9myxlgDYx
"Do we want to give the wealthiest people in America another tax cut, or do you want to give every high school graduate the ability to earn a community college degree?," President Biden says during a presser promoting the American Families Plan pic.twitter.com/OGFMjRKT5v
