As Democrats bicker in Congress and whittle away at President Biden's much-reduced Build Back Better proposal, its popularity with Democratic voters is waning, a Yahoo/YouGov poll finds
Meanwhile, approval of Congress as an institution is also at a low point for Biden's presidency: 15 percent approve to 61 percent disapprove.To strengthen their standing ahead of next year’s midterms — an election in which the president’s party historically suffers sizable losses — Biden and the Democrats are hoping to pass BBB as soon as the week of Nov. 15, then spend the next year campaigning on its individual provisions, which polls have invariably shown to be popular with voters.
Congress has debated a $3.5 trillion plan that would do more to address climate change while also supporting working families with childcare subsidies, national paid family leave and universal pre-K. Do you favor or oppose this plan? What they do instead, however, is start to discourage their own party. While a full 80 percent of Democrats say they favor the initial, $3.5 trillion iteration of BBB, just half as many say they feel the same about the latest $1.75 trillion version. Among 2020 Biden voters, support and opposition are now evenly split at 39 percent apiece for the slimmer package.
To be sure, Build Back Better’s component parts remain far more popular than the complete package, with 77 percent of Americans in favor of “lowering the price of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies”; 60 percent in favor of “expanding subsidies for low- and middle-income Americans to buy health insurance”; 58 percent in favor of “providing universal preschool for all American children”; 58 percent in favor of “creating subsidies that would reduce the cost of...
It’s not yet clear, however, whether Democrats will be able to gin up as much enthusiasm for BBB among their base voters as they hope. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., leaves the Senate Chamber with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., after a vote in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol Building on Nov. 3.
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