One of the most powerful Democratic-allied groups in D.C. is warning party members that they risk leaving women voters behind if they don’t back President Biden’s social spending package
The push from CAP comes as Biden is ramping up promotion of his so-called Build Back Better agenda, which is expected to include funding for workers in elder and child care — fields that are dominated by women. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesOne of the most powerful Democratic-allied groups in D.C. is warning party members that they risk leaving women voters behind if they don’t back President Joe Biden’s social spending package.
CAP’s focus on the benefits they say the proposal would provide women is a not-so-subtle warning shot to the party: The voting bloc they depend on won’t necessarily be there in the midterms unless they rally around the totality of Biden’s sweeping economic agenda. It also echoes the case a number of progressive groups and some lawmakers have made as they push for the bill.
“This is the most popular aspect of the American jobs plan,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of SEIU. “Women voters understand because they are the primary caregivers in the home — 3 million of them left the paid workforce in order to care for either children or elders in multi-generational families. And I think women understand viscerally that this is work that's never been valued.”
Women make up more than 90 percent of child care workers, home health aides, and preschool and kindergarten teachers, according to data circulated by CAP. In contrast, women make up less than 5 percent of construction laborers and equipment operators and less than 10 percent of highway maintenance workers and construction and building inspectors.
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