Biden’s Trying to Sell His Economic Plan. Americans Don’t Know What’s in It.

  • Few Americans know specifics of ‘Build Back Better’ proposal
  • Republicans say they’ve got the advantage in messaging fight
Joe Biden speaks at the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 20.Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg
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President Joe Biden’s signature economic plan, which the White House calls “Build Back Better,” is suffering from a branding problem: Americans aren’t sure what it would do.

They can hardly be blamed. Not even Congress knows what the bill would accomplish, with the contents of the plan changing day-by-day as Democrats squabble over how much it should spend, who it should benefit and who should pay for it.