Poll: Biden’s Approval Rating Stuck on 40%, Close to Lowest Level of Presidency
President Joe Biden’s public approval rating was stuck at 40 percent in early July, close to the lowest levels of his presidency, defying White House efforts to further engage voter support.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll delivered the bad news for the president as he looks to another run for office in 2024, telling Turkish President Recep Erdogan overnight he would win re-election next year and would be working with him for the next five years, as Breitbart News reported.
The three-day online poll, which asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?” and ended Monday, showed a marginal decrease from his 41 percent approval rating a month earlier, within the survey’s three percentage point margin of error.
The largest number of respondents — 21 percent — cited the economy as their top concern, followed by 15 percent who cited crime or corruption, Reuters reports.
The slump has defied White House attempts to push a series of events aimed to reboot Americans’ dour mood about the economy.
These include touting the Democratic president’s “Bidenomics” agenda even as critics suggest nobody really knows what that means much less what “Bidenomics” represents.
White House: ‘Pollsters Are Not Asking the Right Questions’ About Biden’s Economic Policies
Respondents were reportedly evenly split in their views of the Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, with 49 percent supporting the decision and 48 percent opposed.
A majority — 60 percent — said they supported the court’s move to end the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, and collected responses from 1,028 adults, using a nationally representative sample.
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Biden’s Boondoggle: GM Ohio Plant to Enjoy $1B Annually in Subsidies While Workers’ Wages Cut in Half
President Joe Biden’s green agenda for the auto industry is set to shift billions in wealth away from American workers to multinational corporations, a new report from the United Auto Workers (UAW) details.
As part of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, automakers producing Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the batteries needed to power them could soon see a windfall of $220 billion by 2031 in the form of taxpayer-funded subsidies.
The subsidies are a result of a provision in the law that allows automakers to take advantage of tax credits so long as their EVs and batteries are primarily sourced in the United States and manufactured in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico.
The plan, though, is set to transfer billions in wealth straight into the pockets of multinational corporations — effectively an industry-wide bailout at the expense of taxpayers.
In the UAW report, the labor union looks at General Motors (GM) and LG’s EV battery plant in Lordstown, Ohio, known as Ultium Cells, which replaced GM’s old vehicle assembly plant.
While workers at the former plant earned up to $30 an hour, the UAW notes that workers at the Ultium Cells plant are earning about $16.50 an hour with a raise to $20 an hour after seven years. This suggests a 45 percent drop in wages for auto workers in Lordstown.
We cannot allow a race to the bottom for America’s working families,” the report states. “The UAW fully supports the transition to a more climate-friendly auto industry, and we are convinced that it can be done without making workers pay the price.”
At the same time, GM and LG — through the Ultium Cells plant, alone — could rake in more than $1 billion annually in subsidies via Biden’s EV tax credits.
The UAW is worried the Biden subsidies will “be used to supercharge corporate profits” while slashing wages for workers.
“… there is a real danger that hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars will subsidize an EV industry that underpays and endangers workers,” the report states.
As Breitbart News reported, the UAW is withholding an endorsement for Biden as the administration has yet to follow through on commitments that auto workers will not have their wages cut if their manufacturing jobs are transitioned to green energy jobs.
For years, Breitbart News has detailed how a publicly funded transition from combustion engines to EVs has the potential to eliminate millions of American auto jobs and leave auto workers with drastically cut wages.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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