Opinion | Joe Manchin Is Missing the Big Picture on Spending

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In a poll conducted for HuffPost by Data for Progress, Americans offered the same amount of overwhelming support for an infrastructure package that invests in health care, child care, education and clean energy whether they were told it would cost $1.5 trillion, $2.5 trillion or the $3.5 trillion Democrats have been targeting.
53% : Social Security, for example, was not created as an investment in the productivity of our economy, but as a promise to the aged that we wouldn't abandon them to destitution when they could no longer work.

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