Team Biden to wary Democrats: Our spending deal is really popular
WASHINGTON — A memorandum from President Biden’s top pollsters now being circulated to Democrats on Capitol Hill shows broad support from Americans for the components of the Inflation Reduction Act, the ambitious spending package that, if passed, would resuscitate a White House domestic agenda that had appeared hopelessly stalled in recent months.
The document points, in particular, to a proposal for lowering prescription drug costs, which is unambiguously popular with voters regardless of their party affiliation.
“Democrats should confidently support these measures, and campaign on them aggressively, putting Republicans on defense,” says the two-page document, which was obtained by Yahoo News as it was being distributed by Building Back Together, a group that advocates for Biden’s agenda, to Democratic legislators in both chambers of Congress. The polling was conducted by John Anzalone and Matt Barreto, both of whose firms worked for Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign.
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The proposal includes nearly $370 billion for climate change initiatives and over $60 billion for health care subsidies. It allows Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. The spending is to be paid for through higher taxes on corporations.
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