The U.S. Senate this week gave up on the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a different federal approach to healthcare. An assessment of available public opinion data suggests, however, that this failure to repeal Obamacare will not be upsetting to the majority of Americans. […] Read more »
Can the Republican Party Keep Its Coalition Together?
Donald Trump and the Republican Congress this week are straining every fraying seam in their party’s coalition. In just days, Trump’s White House has advanced aggressively nationalistic initiatives on trade and immigration, while also starting an incendiary fight with protesting NFL players. Each of these confrontations has energized elements of […] Read more »
More Americans favor raising than lowering tax rates on corporations, higher-income households
As the congressional debate over President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul begins, more Americans say tax rates on corporations and higher-income households should be raised rather than lowered. CONT. Hannah Fingerhut, Pew Read more »
Who thinks businesses pay too much in taxes? Wealthy Trump supporters.
President Trump always wanted to move faster on tax reform. Early in his presidency, he expressed frustration at having to spend time on trying to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, promising his supporters at one point that, once health care was out of the way, they could move on to […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Low marks for Trump on health care, taxes — higher on economy
Taxes and health care. Both are top priorities in Washington — and both are issues where voters give President Trump some of his worst job ratings. Even so, if Republicans fail to fulfill their promise of replacing ObamaCare, few would blame the president. That’s according to a Fox News poll […] Read more »
CNN poll: Most want major changes to the tax system
As Congress turns its attention away from health care and back toward tax reform and other issues, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds most in favor of major changes to the nation’s tax laws, but wary of President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »