More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Reuters/Ipsos poll

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS DECEMBER 27, 2018 / 2:47 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Chris Kahn, Ginger Gibson
4 MIN READ

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial U.S. government shutdown, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday found, as lawmakers returned to Washington with no quick end to the shutdown 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 Trump’s demand, largely opposed by Democrats and some Republicans, that taxpayers provide him with $5 billion to help pay for a wall he wants to build on the Mexican border. Its total estimated cost is $23 billion.

Just 35 percent of those surveyed in the Reuters/Ipsos 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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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-poll/more-americans-blame-trump-for-government-shutdown-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1OQ1FA

[gratuitous]

1. 33% blame the Democrats?

I'd love to hear the rationale for the minority party's culpability for the Republicans' complete inability to govern the country.

[underpants]

2. You said "rationale"

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[MaryMagdaline]

3. Equal to the percentage who support trump

No reasoning required.

[D_Master81]

5. 60 votes in the Senate

They need 9 or 10 Democrats to vote with the GOP. But in fairness the Senate put up a proposal and Trump shot it down.

[D_Master81]

4. This is what happens

when an idiot openly says, "I'll be glad to take the blame for shutting it down".

[Basic LA]

6. Who is responsible for the Trump Shutdown?

Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?

[Cha]

7. I should hope to fuck so.. #trumpShutDown

he owns it.. Haha M$M.