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A clear majority of Americans currently view ICE unfavorably: recent national polls show roughly half to a majority disapproving of how the agency operates, and support for protests or abolition has j...
The question of who is to blame for the 2025 government shutdown breaks down into three verifiable points: public polls show , institutional rules give Senate filibuster dynamics and vote thresholds d...
Most surveys show Americans hold mixed views: large majorities favor deporting some unauthorized immigrants and stricter enforcement, yet many also support legal immigration and pathways to status; fo...
The claim that is not supported by the record: Democrats did not unilaterally create the funding lapse, and multiple fact-checks show the central policy dispute was over extending Affordable Care Act ...
President Donald Trump’s national approval rating in late October 2025 clusters in the high-30s to low-40s across multiple national polls, with , producing net approval figures in the neighborhood of ...
Donald Trump has made remarks and symbolic posts that critics and polls link to a desire for king-like power — notably a 2023 comment he later said was a joke about wanting to be “a dictator for a day...
Yes — available polling from 2025 shows that the share of U.S. voting‑age people (and especially Democratic and younger cohorts) who favor sanctions or an arms embargo on Israel rose over the course o...
The evidence in recent public-opinion polling and partisan statements shows in the public’s view; multiple polls in October–November 2025 indicate a plurality or majority faulting Republicans while si...
Recent national polls consistently show a majority of Americans support some form of pathway to legal status or citizenship for undocumented immigrants, with reported support commonly falling between ...
Three nationally reported polls asked questions that explicitly referenced Trump’s actions or federal responses tied to the Minnesota ICE shooting and its aftermath: Quinnipiac asked whether the ICE o...
The shutdown cannot be accurately reduced to a simple, single-party blame: contemporaneous reporting and polling show through demands and procedural constraints, and public opinion tilts only slightly...
The factual record shows the 2025 shutdown stems from a Senate funding impasse during negotiations between and Senate Democrats who withheld votes absent concessions, leaving neither side able to asse...
Two consistent findings emerge from the available reporting and polling: multiple national polls show more Americans blaming President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans for the 2025 governmen...
The available reporting and polling converge on a clear finding: . Polls from Navigator Research, Quinnipiac, AP-NORC and PBS/Marist show a plurality or majority of Americans assign at least more resp...
Public opinion about Donald Trump has been highly polarized and event-driven: after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack and the subsequent second impeachment, major polls showed a narrow majority or plurality fav...
Democratic voters broadly blame Republicans more than their own party for the 2023–2024 federal government shutdown and generally characterize the shutdown as a , while many within the Democratic base...
The available reporting and polling consistently show that public opinion and many news accounts place primary responsibility for the 2025 government shutdown on President Donald Trump and Republican ...
Government shutdowns depress presidential approval when the public perceives the executive as unable or unwilling to negotiate a funding deal, and the current shutdown correlates with sharply negative...
A plurality of recent national polls taken in October 2025 show , but substantial shares also blame Democrats, President Biden’s opponents, or both parties. Major surveys differ on framing (adults vs....
Public attitudes toward -and-customs-enforcement"> have shifted markedly over the last five years, moving from broadly unfavorable but not abolitionist in 2019 to a 2026 landscape in which roughly hal...