{"id":1016106,"date":"2021-11-15T17:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016106"},"modified":"2021-11-15T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:14:20","slug":"poll-59-of-americans-oppose-joe-biden-expanding-size-and-role-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-59-of-americans-oppose-joe-biden-expanding-size-and-role-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 59% of Americans Oppose Joe Biden Expanding &#039;Size and Role&#039; of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-59-of-americans-oppose-joe-biden-expanding-size-and-role-of-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1339350093-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Fifty-nine percent of Americans believe President Joe Biden is expanding the \u201csize and role\u201d of the federal government too much, a <em>Washington Post<\/em>-ABC News poll revealed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow concerned are you, if at all, that Biden will do too much to increase the size and role of government in U.S. society?\u201d respondents were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/nov-7-10-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll\/160508a9-cea2-4433-92c8-6dc51838721e\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_10\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Thirty-nine percent said they were \u201cvery\u201d concerned about Biden expanding the role of government, while 20 percent said \u201csomewhat\u201d concerned, marking an overall rating of 59 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 38 percent said they were not concerned about Biden expanding big government, with 16 percent saying \u201cnot so\u201d much and 22 percent saying \u201cnot at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.205035971223\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki says portions of the infrastructure will be enacted &#8220;rather quickly\u201d and some &#8220;will&nbsp;take a little bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not designed to be a stimulus bill, this is designed to be something that\u2019s spent out over time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/igorbobic\/status\/1460324212565020676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Concerns with Biden\u2019s expansion of the federal government have increased since April. At that time, only 53 percent were worried Biden was growing the federal government too much, six points less.<\/p>\n<p>The same poll also asked respondents if they approved or disapproved of Biden\u2019s job performance. Fifty-three percent said they disapprove, while only 41 percent said they approve.<\/p>\n<p>The polling comes as Biden is trying to pass the largest welfare package since the 1960s, which would greatly expand the federal government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.40490797546\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Significant: CBO says it expects to release &#8220;a complete cost estimate&#8221; of Build Back Better this week\u2014by 11\/19.<\/p>\n<p>This could unlock the votes to pass the bill in the House, where a small group of centrist Dems has held it up over additional info from CBO.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/akMFRcR8Yc\">https:\/\/t.co\/akMFRcR8Yc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sahilkapur\/status\/1460324346388484096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The items included in Biden\u2019s package include adding dental and vision to Medicare, funding for home health care for seniors and people with disabilities, allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, expanding Medicare coverage to cover hearing services, two free years of community college, enacting amnesty, free housing, and free child care.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-nine percent of Americans believe President Joe Biden is expanding the \u201csize and role\u201d of the federal government too much, a Washington Post-ABC News poll revealed Sunday. \u201cHow concerned are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}