Selling pandemic relief plan, Biden recasts presidency as a team effort
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their spouses are fanning out across the country this week, “selling” the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
They’re staging events with state and local leaders, and highlighting elements of the package aimed at helping struggling Americans, businesses, schools, and local governments weather the pandemic.
But wait, one might ask, isn’t the American Rescue Plan (ARP) already signed into law? And isn’t it already popular – as seen in a Pew Research Center poll showing 70% support among U.S. adults?
Yes to both.
What’s really happening is a multipronged effort to heed a major lesson of the early Obama years and
