Voters back Biden measure

President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has yet to win over a single Republican in Congress, but it is broadly popular with voters nationwide, mirroring the dynamics of the $1.9 trillion economic aid bill that Biden signed into law last month.

The infrastructure proposal garners support from 2 in 3 Americans, and from 7 in 10 independent voters, in new polling for the New York Times by the online research firm SurveyMonkey.

Three in 10 Republican respondents support the plan, which features spending on roads, water pipes, the electrical grid, care for older and disabled Americans, and a range of efforts to shift to lowcarbon energy sources.

There is nearunanimous support for the plan from Democrats, whose confidence in the nation’s economic recovery has surged in the first months of Biden’s administration.

Republican leaders hope they can ultimately turn some voters, particularly independents, against the plan by attacking Biden’s proposal to fund it with tax increases on corporations. Those increases include raising the corporate income tax rate to 28% from 21% and a variety of measures meant to force multinational corporations to pay more in tax to the U.S. on profits they earn abroad.