US Edition65% of Americans Oppose a Government Shutdown, Poll Shows
A New York Times/Siena poll shows 65% of Americans oppose a government shutdown over ACA subsidy demands despite Democratic base pressure to continue the fight.
- The New York Times/Siena University poll released Tuesday shows 65% of Americans oppose Democrats in Congress shutting down the government if their demands are unmet, with only 27% supporting a shutdown.
- Facing expiring ACA subsidies, Democrats in Congress want any short-term funding to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits past this year, creating a partisan standoff that stalls Congress.
- Survey breakdowns show 47% of Democrats support a shutdown, while only 5% of Republican respondents back it and 59% of Independent voters oppose it, the New York Times/Siena poll found.
- If funding lapses, the government could shut on Tuesday, risking federal worker furloughs as nearly four in 10 Americans would blame Republicans.
- Pressure from the party's progressive base has pushed Democratic leaders into a risky shutdown fight without clear victory conditions, recalling Trump's first-term 35-day shutdown.
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Poll: 65 Percent Oppose Government Shutdown, Democrats Highly Divided With 43 Percent Opposing
By Robert Romano A Sept. 22 to Sept. 27 New York Times-Sienna poll found 65 percent of registered voters oppose Congressional Democrats’ efforts to use a government shutdown to meet their demands, which include permanently expanding Obamacare tax credits, giving taxpayer-funded health care to millions of illegal aliens including DACA and removing the One Big Beautiful Bill’s protections against waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid. Pa…
POLL: Americans Overwhelmingly Back Trump, GOP In Shutdown Battle
A recent poll from Siena College in conjunction with the New York Times found that a comfortable majority of Americans oppose the Democrat-led partial shutdown of the federal government. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and his Senate counterpart Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have repeatedly called on the administration to “compromise” by by extending Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax cuts and guaranteeing taxpayer-funded healthcare “fo…
What Polling Shows About the Politics of Government Shutdowns
Associated Press News
Who might be blamed for the government shutdown? A poll shows voters' complicated views
President Donald Trump got a significant amount of blame during the last partial government shutdown, which took place toward the end of his first term after he forced a shutdown over border wall funding — but with Democrats embracing the shutdown fight this time, the outcome could be different.
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- 44% of the sources are Center, 44% of the sources lean Right
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