By a massive 30-point margin, Americans say Republicans’ protracted battle earlier this month to elect a new House speaker is a sign that “Congress is dysfunctional” (55%) rather than “functioning as intended” (25%), according to Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
By a massive 30-point margin, Americans say Republicans’ protracted battle earlier this month to elect a new House speaker is a sign that “Congress is dysfunctional” rather than “functioning as intended” , according toAnd that’s probably a harbinger of trouble ahead as the United States breaches its debt limit and barrels toward yet another dramatic clash on Capitol Hill in the coming weeks.
Yet conservative House Republicans — newly emboldened by their success in prolonging the speaker battle and by promises that the eventual winner, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California,— are demanding steep budget cuts in exchange for letting the government pay off its past debts. In contrast, the Biden administration says it won’t negotiate and is insisting instead on a “clean” increase of the sort that Republicans approved three times while Donald Trump was president.
In that light, it’s not surprising that when Yahoo News and YouGov asked a random half of poll respondents whether they “favor or oppose raising the U.S. debt limit” — with no additional context — more said they opposed it than said they favored it .
Yet McCarthy’s early reviews among all U.S. adults — 20% favorable vs. 37% unfavorable; 24% approve vs. 31% disapprove — are negative, on the whole. And Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are divided over whether the House GOP should have chosen McCarthy or someone else as speaker.
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