A majority of voters support President Joe Biden’s combined efforts of nearly $ 4 trillion to overhaul and modernize America’s infrastructure, as well as promoting education and childcare, a recent poll shows.

After signing a $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 pandemic relief bill in March, Biden has over $ 2 trillion to spend on infrastructure improvements and nearly $ 2 trillion on providing free community college and the Expansion of childcare required. Invest in America, a research group, and Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, polled more than 1,200 likely voters in mid-May. 58% of respondents supported Biden’s spending plans, even if the Democrats have to pass them without Republican support.

A majority of voters polled, 51% to 32%, prefer Biden’s plans to a Republican infrastructure proposal closer to $ 568 billion – less than a third of what the Democrats are calling for.

Sixty-three percent say changes in the way businesses are taxed should fund infrastructure improvements as opposed to unspent pandemic aid or increasing revenue from fees like tolls. Fifty-five percent urged Republicans to work in good faith with Biden and the Democrats to work out a deal, according to the results of the poll released last week.

In addition to investing in roads and bridges, the President aims to modernize the economy and combat climate change. Billions are earmarked for jobs in the field of renewable energies, electric vehicles, the modernization of the country’s power grid and sewer system, the retrofitting of buildings, hospitals and schools and the expansion of the broadband network. and training to promote manufacturing.

In the family plan, he wants to expand and expand tax cuts for workers and families with low and middle income, expand access to universal preschool and community college, and make childcare more affordable and of higher quality.

Kevin McCarthy, chairman of the minority House of Representatives, recently claimed three-quarters of the Democratic infrastructure proposal was a “wish list of progressive politics” rather than “traditional infrastructure”.

“That is why the Republicans in the House proposed a plan to focus on the most critical infrastructure problems we face today,” he said. Republicans are also calling for legislative reform, trying to continue the Trump administration’s moves to roll back the environmental review processes they claim are causing delays on major infrastructure projects.

No Republican sponsored the president’s $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan. The Democrats bypassed the legislative filibuster – the Senate’s requirement that most bills receive at least 60 votes to move forward – by adding the package to the annual budget vote, which only requires a simple majority to pass.

To get the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan on the president’s desk, the Biden team and top progressives say they’ll be ready to go it alone again if Republicans refuse to get on board .

“We want bipartisanism, but I don’t think the Republican leadership is serious about addressing the major crisis in this country,” Senator Bernie Sanders told CBS News on Sunday. “And if they don’t move forward, we have to move forward alone.”

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