Poll: Majority of Americans hold Trump and Republicans responsible for shutdown

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Scott Clement and
David Nakamura January 25 at 1:30 PM

Public disapproval of President Trump has swelled five points to 58 percent over three months as a majority of Americans continue to hold him and congressional Republicans most responsible for the partial federal government shutdown, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

In addition, more than 1 in 5 Americans say they have been personally inconvenienced by the record-long shutdown, which reached the five-week mark Friday amid reports of turmoil at airports, slowdowns at the Internal Revenue Service and growing public pain as 800,000 federal workers, and many government contractors, go without pay.

Congressional leaders were scrambling Friday to break the impasse after a pair of legislative bills to reopen the government were defeated in the Senate a day earlier. One was a White House-backed proposal that would have offered temporary deportation protections for about 1 million immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in wall funding and changes to asylum laws.

On Thursday, Trump signaled he would support a short-term continuing resolution to reopen the government but his insistence on a “down payment” for the wall to be included was promptly rejected by Democrats.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-majority-of-americans-hold-trump-and-republicans-responsible-for-shutdown/2019/01/25/e7a2e7b8-20b0-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html

[ffr]

1. They should. Republicans are the enemy of public service.

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[Doreen]

2. Any of his supporters who were angry with him will go back to him

with praises of him doing good and beating the Democrats and that Pelosi woman. They will willingly forget that the shutdown is only put off for 3 weeks.

[Initech]

3. Yup, they just keep listening to trash radio and watching Fux News.

So they think he's doing a bang up job!