not just when it comes tos it price tag but ambition and impacts. democrats are united in their support. this is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades. tremendous piece of legislation. it will create a lot of employment all across the country. getting both senator sandgren and manchin, the two poles of the democratic party on board is no easy feat. but they are united. socialist wish list. a left of lenin. this is a left wing giveaway. no republican getting behind the bill, not a single one. 62% of voters support it. no surprise given it includes the biggest stimulus checks so far during covid. phil, president biden is now getting ready to sell this bill to the american people in a big way, and doing kind of a blitz the likes of which we have not seen from him. yeah. that is exactly right. there is a recognition while the popularity ratings for the bill remained stable over the course of the president s first 49 kay
either chamber of congress. what is striking about that fact, about 41% of republican voters say they support the bill. a bill republican leaders say they ll not vote for in part because they feel left out of the process. it didn t have to be this way. we could have had a bill that was, you know, a fraction of the cost of this one that could have gotten bipartisan approval and support, but the speaker decided to go in another direction. now, there certainly can be legitimate reasons not to like this current relief bill like there were legitimate reasons republicans and democrats didn t like the last one. feeling left out of the process was listed as a reason then, too. few leaders making decisions without significant input from members and feeling rushed but it passed by wide margins it passed because the whole out weighed the individual parts people didn t like. 359 votes in the democratic controlled house and 92 in the republican senate. it was largely bipartisan, same