President Donald Trump touched on a wide variety of themes, issues and proposals in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. My colleagues and I reviewed eight of these themes in the context of public opinion. Four of these issues, in particular, I believe, are ones about which the […] Read more »
The GOP’s big tax-cut gamble appears to be paying dividends
A month ago Republicans passed what was, according to some measures, the most unpopular bill in decades: their tax plan. Today, it’s looking more and more as if that was a risk well worth taking. A day after President Trump played up the tax cuts in his State of the […] Read more »
State of the Union 2018: Americans’ views on key issues facing the nation
President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday – a speech that millions of Americans will watch closely. Earlier this month, about three-in-ten (31%) said in a Pew Research Center survey that this year’s speech is “more important” than those in past years, compared […] Read more »
A Check Up on U.S. Global Health Policy, After One Year of the Trump Administration
This month marks one year since Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States after winning the election on a populist, “America-First”, platform. Since then, there have been many questions raised about what a Trump Presidency would mean for U.S. global health policy in light of statements on […] Read more »
Watch the Polls, Ignore the Post-Shutdown Chatter
Over the past few weeks, members of Congress, journalists and television hosts agreed on one thing: The looming government shutdown was a huge deal. Then, after the shutdown ended, those same people pontificated about who won and who lost, as well as about liberal dissatisfaction with the deal to open […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters spread the blame for government shutdown
Voters love to hate Congress. The latest Fox News Poll shows only 15 percent approve of the job Congress is doing. That’s close to the record low 9 percent recorded in October 2013. A year ago, 17 percent of voters approved (January 2017). … Democrats (32 percent) are the top […] Read more »