Several of our questions indicate that voters are growing weary of all the spending (& Biden plans to pile on another $1.8T tonight).

On balance, voters think Congress has spent too much. Rumors of fiscal conservatism's demise are greatly exaggerated. https://twitter.com/EchelonInsights/status/1387422280574242817
Voters want infrastructure to be paid for with spending cuts, not tax increases or deficit spending.

50% say spending cuts
23% say tax increases
9% say debt
When given a choice between a narrowly tailored package strictly focused on infrastructure and Biden's $2T package, more people choose a smaller package like the one the GOP has proposed. 18% favor no bill at all.

*Just 29%* favor a $2T bill like the one Biden has proposed.
Voters don't buy that childcare and paid family leave are infrastructure. What is considered infrastructure?

Highways, roads, bridges 75%
Drinking water, sewage, etc. 55%
Electrical grid 54%

...

Caregiving 14%
Medicaid 14%
Childcare 12%
Paid family leave 10%
We ran an exercise where respondents could create their own infrastructure package, allocating various spending priorities as a share of the overall bill.

The disconnect in priorities between the spending package voters built and Biden package are striking.
Another sign we are ripe for a public revolt against runaway spending: While Democrats have proposed restoring earmarks, a solid bipartisan majority of voters solidly reject this idea and want to keep the current earmark ban in place.
Turning to the GOP, @GovRonDeSantis continues to lead a non-Trump primary field (Trump leads a Trump vs. other Republican matchup by a similar margin as he did last month). DeSantis gained this month with non-Trump, party-first Republicans.
Since Biden says he's running in 2024, we re-asked whether or not people would like to see Biden run (and also Trump).

Support for repeat bids by both is in the mid-to-low 30s among registered voters.

More Trump voters want him to run than Biden voters want him to run.
More nuance to the Trump vs. non-Trump GOP question...

Among Republicans+leaners

41% want a Trump led party
21% want a Trump like agenda without Trump
23% want to build on Trump's successes & move on from his failures
15% want a party free of Trump's influence
The Trump question isn't black and white, and this 44% in the middle is the battleground in the 2024 primary.
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