14h ago

More Americans blame Trump and congressional Republicans for shutdown, new poll finds

www.usatoday.com

The CBS News/YouGov poll, conducted between Oct. 1 and Oct. 3 among 2,441 adults, found that 39% of respondents believe Trump and congressional Republicans deserve the most blame for the shutdown. Thirty percent of respondents blame Democrats more, and 31% blame both equally.
The poll also found that 52% of respondents disapprove of the way Trump is handling the shutdown. Fifty-two percent also disapprove of the way congressional Republicans are handling it.
Meanwhile, 49% percent of respondents disapprove of the way Democrats in Congress are handling the shutdown.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

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6h ago

More Americans blame Trump and congressional Republicans for shutdown, new poll finds

www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/2025/10/06/poll-trump-republicans-shutdown-blame/86547990007/

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I'd genuinely like to see this poll's results from swing states only
30% believe it's democrats fault are you kidding me??
- That sounds about right. I would ballpark the number of MAGA die hards who will believe absolutely everything he says at around 30% of the US. So that's actually the best I would ever hope for on that front. The part that's most disappointing to me is the 31% blaming both equally.
- 30% only get their news from Fox
  
  30% of people will give the dumbest possible answer to any given questions. It's when it's as low as 20% that you know it's right fucken stupid.
This is an expensive distraction.
Johnson literally closed Congress early to avoid a discharge petition on the Epstein files.
- Republicans only want one thing and it's disgusting.
  No it actually is, sick fucks.
  
  They want to continue raping children in secrecy
That's because there's no one else to blame, unless you're braindead.
This is what they're fighting for:
Extend the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which are due to expire at the end of this year.
Republicans restore the nearly $1 trillion in the Republican cuts to Medicaid that they put in the "Big Beautiful Deal."
- ..and this is what Republicans are fighting against:
Also:
Forty percent of respondents believe congressional Democrats’ position is not worth having a shutdown over, while 28% believe it's worth it, according to the poll. And 45% of respondents believe congressional Republicans’ position is not worth having a shutdown over, while 23% believe it's worth it.
So nobody polled really wants this nor do they think it’s worth it. Cool.
- Assuming the 23% and the 28% aren't overlapping, that makes 51% that think a shut down is woth it if it gets their side what they want.
Let’s keep it shutdown.
- That only makes it easier for the fascists.
  
  How so? ICE's coffers won't be restocked for as long as the shutdown continues.
No one has any incentive to stop the shutdown. Republicans can use it to gut the government even faster, Democrats can use it to rally people against Republicans, and meanwhile the country collapses.
I don't see how it ends before the AI bubble pops, and then everyone scrambles to reopen the government as we enter another Great Depression.
Yep, its all their doing.
Sigh.

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