The GOP's Big Bill Is Massively Unpopular — If People Actually Know About It
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One survey found that almost half the electorate hasn’t heard anything about Trump’s signature policy.
The public’s reviews of the centerpiece of Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda started coming in well before Trump signed it into law on Friday afternoon, and they’ve been overwhelmingly negative: Just 27% of registered voters support it in a Quinnipiac University survey, 38% support in Fox News poll, 36% approval from Morning Consult and 23% in a survey from The Washington Post and ABC News. All four surveys show a solid majority of the public opposes the legislation.
The central ideas in the law — cutting taxes for the wealthy while slashing health and food aid for the poor and pouring money into an increasingly unpopular deportation machine and exploding the federal debt — are astoundingly unpopular. Their passage this week has Democrats promising political revenge, even openly dreaming about shattering the working-class coalition Trump crafted.
But for backlash to the legislation to deliver political benefits to Democrats, they need to do more than convince voters to oppose it. They need to let voters, especially those who consume more TikTok than traditional television, know it exists in the first place.
And there are warning signs Democrats’ battle against Trump’s signature proposal is becoming a replay of the 2024 election, when the voters who engaged the most with news and politics overwhelmingly backed then-Vice President Kamala Harris while those who avoided the news or engaged little backed now-President Donald Trump.
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