Six out of 10 Americans oppose funding for border wall, poll says
Source: PBS
BY ANDREW TAYLOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS AND EMILY SWANSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS April 6, 2017 at 8:17 AM EDT
WASHINGTON — Most Americans oppose funding President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The president gets higher marks for efforts to boost defense spending and beef up the border patrol.
Even many of Trump’s supporters reject his proposed budget cuts to scientific and medical research, the poll found.
The poll results come at a crucial time. Congressional Republicans and Democrats are wrestling over whether to include a down payment for the wall — financed by U.S. taxpayers instead of Mexico, despite Trump’s repeated promises — in the spending bill to keep the government open at the end of the month.
The poll offers a mixed view of Trump’s budget proposal, which drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. Americans supported cuts to foreign aid, but opposed Trump’s planned cuts to spending on environmental programs and fighting climate change. People were more likely to oppose than favor cutting federal help for public broadcasting and the arts and by huge margins supported additional money for veterans’ programs.
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