President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House. AP Photo/Alex Brandon John A. Tures, Lagrange College One of the biggest myths about government shutdowns is that presidents usually win. This may explain why President Donald Trump threatened to continue the shutdown for months, even years. However, a […] Read more »
Trump Has Lost Ground In The Shutdown Blame Game
… We’re currently on Day 19 of the shutdown, but Trump’s efforts to pin the blame on Democrats aren’t working, according to three pollsters who have conducted at least two polls in the two and a half weeks since the government first closed. Rather, polls show that Americans are increasingly […] Read more »
Voters blame Trump, GOP for shutdown
President Donald Trump faces a tall task in his Oval Office address on Tuesday night: convincing voters outside of his political base that there is an urgent crisis at the nation’s southern border, that a wall along the border is necessary to solve it, and it’s worth a government shutdown […] Read more »
The majority of Americans are against Trump on the wall and the shutdown
President Donald Trump is taking his case to the American people over why they should back him in the partial government shutdown. His primetime address on Tuesday will be about the “Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border,” he tweeted. But Trump is facing an uphill climb: polls […] Read more »
Politico/Harvard poll: Many Democrats back a taxpayer-funded health care plan like Medicare for All
More than 4 in 5 Democrats want Congress to enact a taxpayer-funded, national health care plan such as Medicare for All, according to a new Harvard/POLITICO poll gauging the public’s health and education priorities for 2019. … While support for a national, taxpayer-funded plan is concentrated on the Democratic side, […] Read more »
2019: The Public’s Priorities and Expectations
Americans’ policy priorities for this year are dominated by health care and immigration. Over the past year, immigration has risen to the top of the public’s agenda, equal to health care. Despite the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in November, Republicans continue to be more positive about the […] Read more »