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Biden’s selling an ambitious agenda. Americans still aren’t sure what it is.

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Joe Biden has a lot of plans.

Whether Americans can differentiate among them — or even name them — is a different matter.

A new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll released Wednesday shows that 61 percent of those surveyed were not familiar with the “American Jobs Plan” and 62 percent were not familiar with the “American Families Plan” — the names of two proposals making up what the White House and Democrats hope to hold up as signature achievements in the 2022 midterm elections.

That could pose hurdles down the road for the president, who is banking on those ambitious, sweeping plans to not only reinvigorate the economy but register with voters when they head back to the ballot box.

The plans, which amount to nearly $4 trillion combined in spending, would fund billions of dollars in infrastructure projects across the country, and greatly enhance the social safety net through things like child care and parental leave, while making historic investments in tackling climate change.

In poll after poll, those individual components of the bills garner strong support from the public, which Biden advisers say is more important than familiarity with the names of the plans themselves.

“The overwhelming consensus among public polls is that these plans — which independent studies show would help create millions of jobs, fundamentally change the game for families, and even reverse the long term decline in job opportunities for Americans without college degrees — are resonating with a decisive majority of the country; and in some cases with a majority of Republicans,” said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates.

But the survey suggests that the White House has work to do in explaining to the public that Biden’s bills actually contain those popular provisions.

 

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