Requiring companies to provide family leave to parents after the birth of a child is highly popular with Americans. This is one of only two proposals with majority net agreement among Democrats, and the only proposal that is more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Trump included a family leave proposal in his January address to Congress. Democratic leaders have since introduced a family leave bill in the Senate and have challenged Trump to support it, but he has not recently included it as one of his major policy emphases.
There is also little disagreement from Americans about spending $1 trillion on infrastructure, the other proposal that finds overall net majority support. Trump is aware of this strong support, telling The New York Times this week that “Infrastructure is so popular that I might want to use it for another bill,” indicating that he might leverage it to help pass healthcare or tax reform.
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