It’s crunch time — Congress is deciding right now what to include in the next stimulus package.

We just released an urgent memo to show that Americans support more stimulus and aren’t buying the GOP’s arguments for cutting unemployment benefits. Our brand new polling finds: 

• Senate Republicans’ plan to cut expanded unemployment benefits from $600 per week to $200 isn’t just immoral — it’s unpopular. A clear majority of voters — 58 percent — want to preserve the $600 weekly boost in unemployment benefits for the entirety of the pandemic. Just 31 percent oppose.

• Americans strongly support continued protections for low-income renters and homeowners. By an overwhelming 74-15 margin, voters want to extend the federal moratorium on evictions, foreclosures, and utility shutoffs.

• 71 percent of voters support increasing aid to states and cities with budget shortfalls. The same percentage of voters want another round of $1,200 stimulus checks.

And critically, voters are willing to put their money where their mouths are. 53 percent think the government should spend more to address the pandemic, even if it runs up the debt, while a paltry 12 percent think there’s been too much relief.



The Republican Party’s disastrous handling of the pandemic is not going unnoticed. Our polling shows it’s causing Americans to turn against the GOP. 

We asked voters whether they’re more concerned about “conservative Republicans” cutting essential benefits and not taking the crisis seriously enough, or “liberal Democrats” who want to spend too much money and prevent Americans from going back to work. We found that Americans are far more upset with the GOP.



Specifically, our poll found that 51 percent of voters are more concerned with Republicans’ handling of the pandemic, while just 33 percent were more concerned with the Democrats.

Read the full memo here.

Our polls are demonstrating that the GOP’s agenda is causing Republicans to lose support from voters, and that Democrats have the upper hand in coronavirus negotiations. Please help us continue this critical work by donating to Data for Progress now.