Biden’s Infrastructure Ideas Are Popular, His Plan Less So

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan is loaded with initiatives that are widely popular on their own, but public support declines when the initiatives are sold as a Biden-backed plan.

For instance, 79% support an overhaul of highways and bridges, 71% want high speed internet access, 68% want to replace lead pipes and 66% back renewable energy. In additon, 64% supported a tax hike on corporations to pay for the plan and 56% supported ending tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry.

However, just 45% of Americans said they would support an infrastructure plan that was “recently released by the Biden administration.”

We saw the same phenomenon when polling “Obamacare” vs. the “Affordable Care Act.”