President Biden has caught something of a lucky break -- a quirk related to the way in which he's regarded by the American people that has allowed him to alternatively propose and push sweeping legislation through Congress that dramatically expands the social safety net, craft major tax credits and tee up new stimulus checks, among other things.
That lucky break is the fact that, at this stage of his presidency, Americans seem to view him as less liberal than his Democratic predecessor and former boss, Barack Obama. That's according to a new NBC News poll released Sunday, reiterating how much difficulty Obama had in passing his agenda while Biden gets to benefit from being seen as more moderate. It's an interesting perception about the current president, however, because it may not fully line up with the reality and with the agenda he wants to pursue. Consider, for example, that on the one hand there are progressive Democrats who are pushing hard for the president to green-light a new round of coronavirus relief payments to struggling Americans. But had they bothered to read the full text of Biden's stimulus bills, including the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan he signed into law in March and then the American Families Plan he proposed in recent days, they would be met with at least one unassailable fact: President Biden is in the process of transferring more wealth from the federal government's coffers to American taxpayers than his predecessors ever dreamed of.
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