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View in browser February 26, 2021 It's actually pretty wild how popular President Joe Biden's Covid-19 stimulus plan is. Poll after poll has showed it with above 65 percent approval among Americans. One recent survey actually found that 60 percent of Republicans at least kind of support the $1.9 trillion bill. Despite this, the GOP members of Congress seemed determined to remain united against the stimulus package. "Whether Republicans like it or not (and they do not) the bill as it stands is the only game in town right now," Hayes Brown writes.
"In response, they are pretty transparent about their efforts to obstruct like the dickens in the hopes that they can turn around and blame Democrats for not getting anything done for Americans in the 2022 midterm elections," Brown writes. "In effect, they’re running the same play that they used effectively at the beginning of the Great Recession over a decade ago. But 2021 isn’t 2009 and it is truly wild that Republicans can’t see that yet.
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