More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Source: Reuters
More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial U.S. government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, as the closure stretched into its sixth day with no end in sight.
Forty-seven percent of adults hold Trump responsible, while 33 percent blame Democrats in Congress, according to the Dec. 21-25 poll, conducted mostly after the shutdown began. Seven percent of Americans blamed congressional Republicans.
The shutdown was triggered by Trumps demand, largely opposed by Democrats and some lawmakers from his own Republican Party, that taxpayers provide him with $5 billion to help pay for a wall that he wants to build along the U.S.-Mexico border. Its total estimated cost is $23 billion.
Just 35 percent of those surveyed in the opinion poll said they backed including money for the wall in a congressional spending bill. Only 25 percent said they supported Trump shutting down the government over the matter.
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Takket
(21,702 posts)Demovictory9
(32,493 posts)Rizen
(727 posts)What happened to Mexico paying for the wall? He lies constantly and his idiot supports don't care.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to set blame.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)A wall doesn't do shit!
FarPoint
(12,481 posts)This is the TRUMP SHUTDOWN....always identify the shutdown, as the TRUMP SHUTDOWN...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,430 posts)Trump slump, Trump recession.
AKing
(511 posts)After January 3rd the House will start passing bills that will put Trump and McConnell between a rock and a hard place. The Trump shutdown is going to bite them big time.
iluvtennis
(19,905 posts)offered 1.x Million for border security. The Senate sent the CR with that amount, but the House refused to pass it.
Trump and the House rethugs own this shutdown.
djacq
(1,634 posts)Time Index 01:19
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