WASHINGTON – A new monthly cash benefit championed by President Joe Biden is poised, supporters of the program hope, to lift families out of poverty and provide them with financial security.
Will it also nudge some of those same parents to vote for Democrats?
The president’s expansive policy agenda is testing the limits of how much direct financial assistance from the federal government can influence voters, millions of whom will or already have received thousands of dollars this year thanks to a flurry of Biden-backed measures.
