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Two of the most urgent bills before the Senate right now are the PRO Act, a comprehensive labor reform bill, and the For the People Act, a landmark voting rights and anti-gerrymandering bill. This week DFP partnered with More Perfect Union to poll both pieces of legislation and found significant support for both. Even better? When voters were informed about the provisions of what these bills will do, support shot up. National voter support for the PRO Act increased by a 13-point net margin, and Republican opposition to the For the People Act fell by an 8-point margin. 
 
(It’s not exactly revolutionary to run on ‘just explaining legislation,’ but it works! Maybe Dems should try it sometime…)

These findings bolster the fact that the left is winning the war on policy — we just need to do a better job of informing the electorate. (Not to mention our ideas are just more popular than Republicans’ which is why they’d rather rant about cancel culture and Doctor Seuss than any of their miserably half-baked plans to cripple social services.)

Here are some other highlights from DFP over the past week:

The only thing basic about New Jersey is a Universal Basic Income 
Universal Basic Income is a popular idea, for reasons which anyone who received a stimulus check can grasp: people like it when the government gives them money (and they spend it in ways that help the economy). The municipal government of Newark has implemented a pilot UBI program, but as DFP polling analyst Brian Burton argues, the state of New Jersey is better poised to run such a program. Our polling found that New Jersey voters support a monthly basic income, and voters of color support it even more strongly: Black voters support a monthly UBI by +44 points. 


 
Voters Want To Reconcile — the AJP and AFP, that is
In yet another chapter of the ongoing saga of “voters want good things to pass Congress and they don’t care how it happens”, Data for Progress teamed up with Invest in America to test voters’ opinions on passing the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan together via budget reconciliation. Unsurprisingly, we found that voters support this simple-majority passage, and want to see Congress pass both infrastructure packages via reconciliation by a +33-point margin. 
 

 
Who you gonna call (To complain about Congressional Gridlock)? … Republicans
Also with Invest in America, we polled voters on who they blame for the stalling of the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan in Congress. The verdict was clear: voters blame Congressional Republicans for failing to pass the American Jobs and Families Plans. (Truly though, who is surprised). 



That’s not even to mention that voters give the GOP Infrastructure counter-offer two thumbs down. When asked if they would prefer the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, or the Republican counter-proposal, voters came down decisively in favor of the AJP + AFP. 



From Data for Progress

Memo: Voters Support the PRO Act and the For the People Act 
Blog: Voters Want the American Families and Jobs Plans Passed Together Through Reconciliation
Blog: The Time Is Now to Move on Monthly Basic Income in New Jersey 


DFP In The News 

New York Times: The Promise and Pressures of Deb Haaland, the First Native American Cabinet Secretary 
The Hill: Poll: Majority support Medicare negotiations for drug prices
Washington Post: Opinion: New developments puncture the GOP’s ‘working-class’ makeover scam
Washington Post: Opinion | Biden wants to ‘pressure’ Congress on voting rights. If only he could. 
Bloomberg: Biden Floats 15% Minimum Corporate Tax in Talks With GOP
New York Magazine: What Does Kyrsten Sinema Care About?
Forbes: Democrat Katie Hobbs Mounts Bid For Arizona Governor After Combatting GOP Election Challenges
CBS: Stimulus Check Update: Is A Fourth Relief Payment Coming For Americans?

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