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The American Families Plan (AFP), introduced by President Biden on April 28, seeks to provide aid to American families, reduce child poverty, invest in teachers and education, ensure comprehensive paid family leave and subsidize child care—a desperately needed plan that will no doubt boost women’s workforce participation, which has fallen to levels not seen since the 1980s.
However, the AFP cannot be signed into law without support in both the House and evenly-divided Senate, and so far, the plan has been met with resistance from Republican lawmakers: Despite the fact that 60 percent of U.S. voters support the plan, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) recently said Democrats can expect “zero” support from Republicans in Congress.
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Women and workers: two groups which the Right has never been a source of support for. As the Conservatves are largely comprised of upper class men, who don't value women and who take advantage of their workers, it makes sense the GOP is pushing back. That said, it also makes sense that the bill has bipartisan support: that kind of sexist/anti-workers' rights sentiment has not been seen so prominantly since the 80s, and between then to now many modern Republicans have come to respect and value both groups.