A huge majority of Americans, including nearly two-thirds of Republicans, support the $1,400 stimulus checks President Biden is calling for, and his full $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal also has strong public backing, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
The poll found that 78 percent of Americans supported the stimulus checks, including 90 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans — suggesting that Republicans in Congress who want to reduce the checks to $1,000 are out of step with their constituents on this issue.
The full stimulus package proposal — which includes the $1,400 checks as well as state and local aid, expanded unemployment benefits and other provisions — had 68 percent support over all, with backing from 97 percent of Democrats and 37 percent of Republicans. While Republicans are often overwhelmingly against Democratic spending proposals, only 47 percent of Republicans said they definitively opposed the package. Sixteen percent of Republicans said they were unsure.
The poll also showed majority support for several other Democratic priorities: 65 percent of respondents supported a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, 63 percent supported Mr. Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, 61 percent supported raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and 54 percent supported a decision to stop construction on former President Donald J. Trump’s border wall.
The poll, conducted from Jan. 28 through Feb. 1, has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Congressional leaders received low approval ratings across the board, but Democrats fared better than Republicans. The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, had 37 percent approval compared with 21 percent for the minority leader, Mitch McConnell; and Speaker Nancy Pelosi had 45 percent approval compared with 27 percent for the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy.
Over all, 44 percent of respondents said they approved of congressional Democrats’ job performance, while 26 percent said they approved of congressional Republicans’ job performance. A similar pattern was evident in whether respondents thought the parties were moving in the right direction: They were evenly split on whether the Democratic Party was moving in the right direction, but said, 64 percent to 25 percent, that the Republican Party was moving in the wrong direction.
Forty-nine percent said they approved of Mr. Biden’s job performance so far, while 36 percent disapproved and 16 percent were unsure.
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