Nearly 4 in 10 have firsthand experience with U.S. shutdown: poll

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Posted on Tue, Jan 15th, 2019 by Reuters
Nearly 4 in 10 have firsthand experience with U.S. shutdown: poll
By Chris Kahn


NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly four in 10 adults in the United States say they are either personally affected by the partial U.S. government shutdown or they know someone who is, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released on Tuesday.

The Jan. 8-14 poll showed that the shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history, has affected a much larger chunk of the public than the 800,000 federal workers who were either furloughed or asked to work without pay.

The online poll focused on how the public perceives the shutdown, asking more than 2,000 respondents what kind of firsthand experience, if any, they have had with the government closures.

It asked whether their family had lost any income, expected to lose income or relied on any government services that had been shut down. The poll also asked if respondents “personally know someone” who had lost income, expected to lose income, or relied on government services that are now closed.

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When asked who deserved most of the blame for the shutdown, the poll found that 51 percent of the public said it was Trump. Another 34 percent blamed Democrats in Congress and 6 percent blamed Republicans in Congress.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English throughout the United States. It gathered responses from 2,343 adults, including 1,016 Democrats, 787 Republicans, and 321 independents. It has a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 2 percentage points.

(Reporting by Chris KahnD; editing by Jonathan Oatis)