Credit: www.politicspa.com

The new NBC/WSJ poll conducted November 14-17 provides a post election snap shot of American voter expectations, including their priorities for actions Congress should take. Can you guess how they match up with GOP Lawmaker’s priorities? It’s a real shocker folks.

The People’s agenda for Congress:

1.   Access to lower cost student loans–80% support.
2.   Increase spending on infrastructure–75%
3.   Raising the minimum wage–65%
4.   Emergency funding for fighting Ebola in Africa–60%
5.   Addressing climate change/reducing carbon emissions–59%
6.   Building Keystone Pipeline–54%

Agenda items registering below 50% support were: lowering taxes by closing loopholes; approving U.S. troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria; reducing Medicare and Social Security benefits for wealthy retirees; new trade agreements with Asian nations; lowering corporate tax rates; cutting funding for ACA; path to citizenship; and raising Social Security retirement age.

I thought it would be insightful to compare America’s priorities with those of our newly elected Congress. According to PolitiFact.com

House Speaker John Boehner and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have laid out […]