Voters wary of Trump’s tax cuts and tariff policy, new poll says
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Trump enters White House with higher overall enthusiasm from Americans than previous term, according to poll. Americans have mixed feelings about key parts of Donald Trump’s economic agenda, though the president-elect returns to the White House with greater enthusiasm from supporters than his previous term, according to a new poll.
Trump has promised a sweeping economic overhaul, including high tariffs on major U.S. trading partners and massive tax cuts, the latter of which the Senate Committee on the Budget found would add $4.6 trillion to the deficit. "Keeps going back to the economy − I want him to fix it," Brandon Porria, 30, a political independent who voted for Trump in November told USA Today. "The one thing I don’t want him to do is, you know, be petty and … waste time going after people that might have had ill feelings toward him.".
Trump’s economic plans have already faced roadblocks, including a chaotic, last-minute government funding bill passed in December that left out an extension of the debt limit Trump had requested to free up fiscal space for his plans. Still, despite some divergences between the Trump plans and voters’ priorities, Americans overall are more excited about Trump this time around, according to the poll, conducted between between January 7 and 11.
