President Trump has proposed shifting at least half of a food stamp recipient's monthly benefit from a monetary payment to a box of healthy, homegrown food. Nearly half of Americans believe it’s too easy to get food stamps and are open to this new plan.
Though Congress and the president continue to introduce bills with increasingly more spending, most voters – including those who want a more hands-on government - don’t trust that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely.
Congress just passed a bipartisan budget with billions of dollars in new defense and domestic spending. The president has proposed a new budget that would spend even more, projecting deficits long into the future. Most voters think a balanced budget is a better way to go economically, but they don’t foresee that happening anytime soon.
Over a year after President Obama left office, a sizable number of voters - including most Democrats - remain convinced that he's responsible for the continuing boom in the U.S. economy.
President Trump has proposed holding a massive parade in Washington, D.C. to showcase America’s military strength, but most voters don’t want it.
Senator Rand Paul stood as a lone dissenting voice late last week as Senate leaders rammed through a bipartisan budget that dramatically increases military and domestic spending.
For Democrats, the possible Trump-Russia connection remains the burning issue of the day. For the rest of voters, pocketbook issues and illegal immigration are priorities.
The government shut down for five- and-a-half hours Friday night as Congress wrestled to agree upon a spending bill to keep the government running, but voters would rather see a shutdown until Congress can cut spending.
The #MeToo movement is sweeping the nation, but a sizable number of Americans think it has gone too far.
A once-secret memo released last week scrutinizes the FBI and Justice Department officials for their surveillance practices of a former Trump campaign adviser, and half of voters think those officials went too far.
The United States is expected to begin pulling troops out of Iraq after the government there declared victory over the Islamic State Group (ISIS), and more voters now agree that America and its allies have won that war.
Most voters are now unwilling to give the FBI a pass when it comes to playing politics in the last presidential election.
Several states are considering a law that would make an attack on law enforcement officers a hate crime, and most voters continue to support a so-called “Blue Lives Matter” law.
Most voters favor the immigration reform plan detailed by President Trump in his State of the Union speech and think it’s likely to finally produce a secure southern border.
The nation is better off economically than it has been in years, but most voters see America as an increasingly divided land with worse still to come.
Voters concede that opposition to President Trump’s agenda is politically motivated, but even after Trump’s conciliatory State of the Union speech, they’re slightly less convinced Congress should work with the president.
Most voters don’t generally have faith that the promises made in the president’s State of the Union address will be accomplished, but they think Trump has a better chance than most of keeping his promises.
President Trump should have a sizable audience for his State of the Union speech tonight, but more voters than usual say they are likely to tune in to the official Democratic response as well.
While a majority of voters continue to be skeptical of big business and its ties to government, that number is down significantly from previous surveys.
Nearly half of voters think the recent government shutdown will have a negative impact on the economy, but few believe it will affect their personal lives.
