The Issues Americans Think Are Worth A Government Shutdown
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Apr 28, 2017
As the deadline for U.S. federal budget authorization approaches, this infographic highlights the issues that people think are important enough to justify a government shutdown.
As Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, although 67 percent of respondents said Congress should do everything it can to avoid a shutdown, of all the issues, the one stated most often as being worth fighting for was the increase of funding for defense and homeland security.
President Trump’s flagship policy of building a wall on the border to Mexico was the lowest priority for voters, with only 27 percent saying this should be a sticking point; perhaps indicating that the president’s decision to back down on the issue won’t be as politically damaging as some of his detractors might have hoped.
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