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 »
Democrats, Trump to blame for government shutdown
Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats about equally for the three-day government shutdown that ended Monday with another stopgap spending measure, according to a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll. CONT. Stephanie Perry & John Lapinski, NBC News Read more »
2018 Edelman Trust Barometer Reveals Record-Breaking Drop in Trust in the U.S.
The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that trust in the U.S. has suffered the largest-ever-recorded drop in the survey’s history among the general population. Trust among the general population fell nine points to 43, placing it in the lower quarter of the 28-country Trust Index. Trust among the informed public […] Read more »
How the shutdown and DACA could drive 2018 turnout for Democrats
Washington is struggling, again, with a government shutdown. But this time a nonbudget issue is driving much of the debate: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, or DACA. Congressional Democrats are demanding that President Donald Trump make good on his promise to protect the immigrant group often called […] Read more »
What the Shutdown Says About the Future of the Democrats
Surprised that the Democrats stuck to their guns on the shutdown, even opening themselves up to the charge that they are “far more concerned with illegal immigrants” than with the military and border security, as President Trump put it in a Saturday morning tweet? Don’t be. It’s been coming for […] Read more »