Majority Of Americans Do Not Want Democrat Government Shutdown: POLL

The majority of Americans do not support Democrats shutting down the government, according to a New York Times/Siena University poll released Tuesday.

Sixty-five percent of Americans said Democrats should not shut down the government even if “their demands are not met,” according to the survey. Meanwhile, 27% of respondents said they supported Democrats shutting down the government, while 7% said they did not know or refused to answer, the poll found.

Moreover, 43% of Democrats said that they agreed members of their own party should not shut down the government, compared with 92% of Republicans and 59% of independents who said they did not back a Democratic-supported shutdown, according to the poll. The survey conversely found that 47% — a plurality — of Democrats would support the Democratic Party shutting down the government, while 32% of independent voters would support a shutdown and just 5% of Republicans said the same.

President Donald Trump’s overall approval rating was 43%, according to the poll.

The newly-released poll comes shortly before the government is barreling towards a shutdown on Wednesday if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats do not approve a stopgap funding plan which would temporarily fund government operations until Nov. 21. The clean GOP spending bill