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After we pass Build Back Better, we should never shut up about It
Our way out of a 2022 bloodbath hinges on passing Build Back Better. You’re sick of hearing it, we’re sick of writing it, yada yada. But a new Data for Progress analysis finds that part of the formula for success in the midterms isn’t just passing the bill: it’s making voters aware that Democrats are the ones who did it.
Stimulus checks are a pretty good example of this. We polled a national pool of likely voters and found that, when asked to name the first government program that comes to mind, voters overwhelmingly named stimulus checks first.
Stimulus checks were highly visible and widely distributed — and they helped boost the popularity of Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats this past spring. If we were to pass Build Back Better and message constantly about it, ensuring that voters felt immediate effects and knew about it, we’d have a likely chance of getting a similar boost.
Read the full blog results and analysis from Senior Writer Lew Blank here.
While we’re on the subject, voters want immigration to be a part of Build Back Better
While the Senate Parliamentarian wasn’t looking, we managed to include some limited immigration protections as part of Build Back Better. The protections in question include giving DACA recipients and other undocumented immigrants the ability to earn a work permit, as well as protection from deportations.
We find that 75 percent of likely voters, including 88 percent of Democrats and 81 percent of Independents, support this provision. Republicans also support this provision by a +19-point margin.
Read the full analysis from Senior Analyst Evangel Penumaka here.
Surprise, surprise — the United States is discriminating against disabled people and U.S. citizens living in the territories
Right now, if you’re disabled and living in a territory that’s not the Mariana Islands, you don’t qualify for disability benefits (SSI) from Social Security. It’s part of a completely arbitrary and discriminatory rule set by the Social Security Administration — and yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case seeking to overturn that rule.
One of the benefits of American citizenship is Social Security. The fact that American citizens don’t qualify for the program simply based on where they live is morally bankrupt — and voters agree that the U.S. should stop discriminating against disabled citizens who just happen to live outside the contiguous United States.
Read the full blog from Senior Resident Fellow and disability rights activist Matthew Cortland and Principal Gustavo Sanchez here.
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