Despite the pair’s plummeting job approval ratings, the White House insists it is unfazed by President Joe Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’s poll numbers.
The Biden-Harris administration is confident its policies “will improve the lives of nearly every American” by growing the economy and creating jobs, according to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.
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“That’s our focus: to make sure that we continue to push the president’s economic policies,” Jean-Pierre, White House principal deputy press secretary, told reporters Monday. “Polls are all over the map. And that’s not going to be our focus right now.”
Emphasizing the economic aspects of Biden’s $1.75 trillion social welfare and climate spending framework, Jean-Pierre said components of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, which the House passed last week after the Senate cleared it months ago, are “very popular.”
“American families want to see these historic investments in infrastructure,” she said. “So that’s what we’re seeing, and that’s what matters as we’re moving forward is delivering for the American public.”
There is still no date for when Biden will sign the infrastructure deal into law, according to Jean-Pierre. But she said she was optimistic the president and his congressional colleagues would pass the broader spending package, noting it “is going to be paid for” and “will add $0 to the deficit.”
“Build Back Better is going to get done. We’re very confident of that,” she said, declining to commit to a Thanksgiving deadline.
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Biden’s average job approval rating is 42.8% and disapproval 51.7%, according to RealClearPolitics. Harris’s job approval is 40% and disapproval is 51.4%. But a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll published Monday found Biden’s approval was at 38% and Harris’s at 28% before the House passed the infrastructure deal.
