Biden budget offers up election-year contrast with GOP foes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : It similarly calls for higher taxes on wealthy households to extend the solvency of Social Security.
56% : That reduction would come, however, mostly from tax increases on corporations and wealthy households that Republicans have already rejected in previous years.
48% : And the president again promised to protect Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts, even as those programs face fiscal insolvency in coming years.
43% : His budget calls for extending the solvency of Medicare by increasing the Medicare tax rate on annual incomes above $400,000 and closing a "loophole" allowing some businesses to avoid paying a Medicare tax on their profits, among other things.
38% : Discretionary capsWith about two-thirds of federal spending made up of mandatory entitlements such as Social Security, the big fiscal fight will center on Biden's request of nearly $1.7 trillion in discretionary funding.

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