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Nearly seven million jobs have been added to the economy since Biden took office, largely due to the investments of the American Rescue Plan. The Administration has an opportunity to both combat inflation and build on its economic progress by making new investments in our economy and supply chains — and voters support legislation that would make that happen.


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New ([link removed]) Data for Progress polling finds that the vast majority of voters support key investments in our economy, including combating the supply chain crisis by investing in new American factories and allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug costs. If those policies sound familiar, it’s because they’re key components of the Build Back Better Act. Crazy coincidence, right?

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Yeah, we know that Build Back Better is MIA. But even without it, the Biden Administration can still pass critical legislation to address inflation: Our polling finds that 73 percent of voters, including majorities of Independents and Republicans, widely support the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which would boost domestic manufacturing of semiconductors and help get supply chains back to normal.


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Voters Are Not Eager for Another World War

Remember how 2020 started with a pandemic and 2021 started with an insurrection at the Capitol? Well, it’s 2022, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has assembled around 10,000 troops on the border of Ukraine in order to, in the words ([link removed]) of the New Yorker, “assert [Russia’s] geopolitical relevance.”

Data for Progress polling finds that voters largely support using diplomacy rather than the military to resolve this crisis. By a +29-point margin, including a Independents by a +18-point margin and Republicans by a +6-point margin, voters support the United States using every diplomatic tool at its disposal to avoid war.


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Biden’s Winter Olympics Strategy: Freezing Out China

The 2022 Winter Olympics opened today, and relations between the United States and China are on … thin ice. (Not sorry.) In an escalation of ongoing tensions, the Biden Administration has announced a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics, hosted in Beijing. Ostensibly, the boycott is in protest ([link removed]) of ongoing human rights abuses, and other countries have joined in protest.

(Note: For what it’s worth, a diplomatic boycott doesn’t prevent a nation's athletes from being sent to participate; it just means that no government representatives will be in attendance, as a signal of disapproval. Foreign relations, but make it Emily Post.)

Data for Progress polling finds that 67 percent of voters support the diplomatic boycott. This includes a +37-point margin of Independents and a +25-point margin of Republicans.


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Democrats Let the Child Tax Credit Expire and Now Everyone’s Mad at Them

Seriously, what did they think would happen? Democrats passed wildly popular legislation, lifted millions of children out of poverty, and supported working families in the middle of a pandemic economy — and then let the credit expire. Because of this guy. ([link removed])

A new Data for Progress memo shows just how much this could hurt Democrats. We found that the party experiences a 9-point decrease in trust to support families with children when likely voters hear about the program’s expiration — and that this number doubles among families who were beneficiaries of the policy.

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New York Magazine:Sinema’s New Republican Friends Aren’t Going to Vote for Her ([link removed])

HuffPost:Armed With Teddy Bears, West Virginia Moms Fight To Save The Child Tax Credit ([link removed])

FiveThirtyEight:Why Aren’t More Americans Interested In The Winter Olympics? ([link removed])

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Politico:The cancer moonshot needs more fuel ([link removed])

Business Insider:Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has a higher approval rating among Republicans than Democrats in Arizona: poll ([link removed])

E&E:Will climate action this year matter in the midterms? ([link removed])

Newsweek:Joe Manchin Leads 2024 Polls as Kyrsten Sinema Faces Potential Primary Loss ([link removed])

The New Republic:Democrats Can Win the Pennsylvania Senate Seat—if They Don’t Slaughter One Another First ([link removed])

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The American Prospect:Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives? ([link removed])

Truthout:Biden Polls Poorly Against “Generic” Republican, But Beats Trump, DeSantis ([link removed])

The New York Sun:Democrats Add New York as a Feather in Redistricting Cap ([link removed])

LA Progressive:U.S. to Russia: Do as We Say, Not as We Do ([link removed])

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