The Biden recovery bill is intended to accomplish two broad objectives in addition to facilitating pandemic recovery. One is to reduce inequality, by sending the vast majority of the benefits to the less affluent; the second is to convince pocketbook voters among the Trump supporters in the working class that a government run by Democrats can and will work for them.
How many of the Trump working class voters are actually motivated by financial considerations, as opposed to the culture wars? We’ll know more in 2022. In the meantime, the rest of them can gorge themselves on Mr. Potato Head.