Author: Bill Theobald / Source: USA TODAY
President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had a heated exchange in front of reporters at the White House. USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Americans have a clear message to Washington as the government hurtles toward a partial shutdown on Friday: Don’t.
By a double-digit margin, 54 percent to 29 percent, those surveyed in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll say they oppose the shutdown that President Trump has threatened if Congress doesn’t agree to his demand for $5 billion in funding for a border wall.
Who would bear the blame?
By nearly 2-1, Americans would blame Trump and the Republicans, not congressional Democrats. Forty-three percent would blame the president and the GOP, while 24 percent would hold congressional Democrats responsible. Thirty percent would blame both sides equally responsible.
“Completely, it’s Donald Trump’s fault,” says Dave Dobrin, 60, a retired computer programmer from Orange County, Calif., who was among those surveyed. A political independent, he voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. “He has the emotional maturity of a 6-year-old, and he is going to have a tantrum if he doesn’t get his way.”
But Dwayne Pyle, 33, a Republican who voted for Trump, says the need for a wall to secure the southern border is crucial and blames Democrats for refusing to cooperate with the president. “We hired him to do a job,” said Pyle, of Redding, Calif., who works in sewer-line maintenance. “We didn’t hire him to make everybody happy or appease people.
”There is, unsurprisingly, a sharp partisan divide about attitudes toward the shutdown.
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