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He oversees polling and society trend data for Ipsos Public Affairs and joins us today with new data on how Americans are viewing the ongoing government shutdown in day 13 now.
Cliff Young, what did you find?
Who are Americans blaming for the impasse that we continue to find ourselves in?
Well, it's really a pocket on all their houses, right?
Whether it be Donald Trump, whether it be the Republicans, whether it be the Democrats, about two-thirds of Americans say each of them is responsible or have a large degree of responsibility for the shutdown.
Now, you know, if we were to force it, we were to force choice that we were to force Americans or respondents to rank order, we'd find that the Republicans are a little bit more responsible than Democrats.
But overall, there's a lot of large degree of consternation and critique of what's going on today.
And we're in a moment right now of heightened uncertainty, lots of trepidation about what's going to happen, especially with tariffs, looking at inflation, the pocketbooks, right?
This all sort of goes into this overall worry.
About 49% of Americans are worried that their benefits like Social Security will be stopped or discontinued for a time.
And that's at historic levels, right?
We found similar numbers in the past when we've had shutdowns.
So shutdowns writ large kind of reinforce Americans' sense of uncertainty and fear about the president.
One would think, politically speaking, right, the side that really feels like they're being pressured, especially politically from a public opinion's perspective, might cave a bit or might seed a bit.
We also have numbers on a relative degree of worry.
If those worry numbers go up, kind of whether those support numbers go down.
Typically, there's not much support for government shutdown.
Those are extreme sort of groups and individuals that actually support it.
But we'll be looking at relative optimism on the one hand and to what extent responsibility shifts over time.
We've got a special line for federal workers, 202748-8003 is that number.
Otherwise, phone numbers for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, as usual.
We've got Cliff Young for about another 20 minutes here this morning.
We just finished watching the President's speech at the Knesset.
Probably a bit too early for you to have polling numbers on that.
But as somebody who studies public opinion, what are you going to be asking people in the wake of this speech, in the wake of this ceasefire and attempted peace deal?
It's one of those events which we can say a priori before knowing anything else.
It is qualitatively different than your average sort of a foreign policy event, right?
The question is what impact will it have?
Now, some of the questions we're going to ask will be questions around the event itself, favorability towards it, feelings towards it, whether they think there's a long-term solution, it's kind of like that, let's say, cluster of questions.
We'll also be looking at his numbers.
Does it improve President Trump's numbers, his approval numbers over time?
During his 65-minute address to the Knesset, President Trump talked about a lot of different things, but he mentioned the war in Ukraine and saying on Russian and the Ukrainian war, we'll get a deal done.
Does his ability to make progress here, a ceasefire, and now a potential path to a full-on peace deal when it comes to Gaza and Israel, do you think that will impact public sentiment for the ability to end a different war, Ukraine and Russia?