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Democrats’ proposed spending spree tests voter appetite for more government-funded programs

By Kate Scanlon
Published September 20, 2021 10:30am ET
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Democrats’ proposed spending spree tests voter appetite for more government-funded programs
FILE- In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo a lone voter fills out a ballot alongside a row of empty booths at a polling station in the Terrace Park Community Building on Election Day in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are betting voters are hungry for a swath of new government spending on social programs in the tradition of predecessors such as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society.

The 2022 midterm elections are set to test that notion.

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