Majority Of Americans Do Not Want Democrat Government Shutdown: POLL

The majority of Americans do not support Democrats shutting down the government, according to a New York Times/Siena University poll released Tuesday.

Sixty-five percent of Americans said Democrats should not shut down the government even if “their demands are not met,” according to the survey. Meanwhile, 27% of respondents said they supported Democrats shutting down the government, while 7% said they did not know or refused to answer, the poll found.

New York Times Poll:

65% of Americans say, “the Democrats should not shut down the government, even if their demands are not met.” pic.twitter.com/x3CFjzqgm6

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Moreover, 43% of Democrats said that they agreed members of their own party should not shut down the government, compared with 92% of Republicans and 59% of independents who said they did not back a Democratic-supported shutdown, according to the poll. The survey conversely found that 47% — a plurality — of Democrats would support the Democratic Party shutting down the government, while 32% of independent voters would support a shutdown and just 5% of Republicans said the same. (RELATED: Democrats Dismiss Concerns About Key Program Going Unfunded During Imminent Schumer-Caused Shutdown)

🚨 POLL: 65% of Americans say Democrats SHOULD NOT shut down the government pic.twitter.com/9schOzvYfV

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President Donald Trump’s overall approval rating was 43%, according to the poll.

The newly-released poll comes shortly before the government is barreling towards a shutdown on Wednesday if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats do not approve a stopgap funding plan which would temporarily fund government operations until Nov. 21. The clean GOP spending bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), was notably opposed by almost all Democrats on Sept. 19.

Senate Democrats instead put forth their own spending plan including a spate of left-wing policies, which the GOP-controlled Senate rejected on the same day.

“The clean, nonpartisan, House-passed CR is sitting at the desk in the Senate right now. It could be picked up and passed, and the government would stay open,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune wrote Tuesday in a post to X. “The ball is in the Democrats’ court. But Chuck Schumer wants a Schumer shutdown.”

Similarly, Thune wrote Monday in an op-ed for the Washington Post that “there is no reason” a government shutdown “needs to happen.”

Though, Schumer has continued to insist that Trump and the GOP would be to blame if a government shutdown occurs. Schumer wrote in a Monday X post that if the government shuts down, it is because “Republicans would rather shut it down rather than help people afford health care.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday that Democrats “are in this fight until we win this fight,” in reference to the ongoing government funding battle.

“The lunatics on the left are running the Democrat Party, and they’re running our country straight into a shutdown,” National Republican Congressional Committee Spokesman Mike Marinella said Tuesday in a statement provided to the DCNF. “It’s clear their ‘leaders’ will side with their radical base over hardworking Americans any chance they get.”

The NYT/Siena University survey of 1,313 voters across the U.S. was conducted in English and Spanish by live operators on cell phones and landline telephones and online via text message from Sept. 22 to 27. The poll’s margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points among registered voters.

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