(A “massive, reckless taxing and spending spree,” Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said last week.) Here’s the Democrats’ problem: Most of the individual spending proposals in the plan are broadly popular among voters, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into solid support for the whole package.Ī USA Today/Suffolk University poll last month found that the spending plan was supported by a bare majority, 52%, of Americans - and that was before Republicans began barraging the proposal with objections, aimed mostly at the price. But as a practical political matter, it’s a good thing for Democratic members of Congress who face tough races in 2022 - and for their party’s tenuous chances of retaining its razor-thin majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives.
