adults said debt payments and federal spending should be handled as separate issues, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted April 28-May 3. But in a TIPP/Issues & Insights poll from May 3-5, a plurality of Americans (46 percent) said Congress should raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts.
In a Data For Progress poll from May 3-4, a majority of likely voters (58 percent) said Congress should act as soon as possible to raise the debt ceiling and not “waste time” negotiating on spending. For every recent poll finding on Americans’ views of the debt ceiling debate, there seemed to be a poll showing just the opposite. These two polls are just the tip of the iceberg. The headline takeaways were in direct opposition: A majority of Americans say the debt ceiling should be raised with spending cuts … and also a majority of Americans say the debt ceiling should be raised without spending cuts. In the other, from Marist/NPR/PBS NewsHour, 52 percent of Americans said Congress should raise the debt ceiling first and worry about spending cuts separately. In one, from SSRS/CNN, 60 percent of Americans said Congress shouldn’t raise the debt ceiling unless it cuts spending at the same time. This was illustrated quite dramatically last Tuesday, when two polls on the debt ceiling were released with wildly different results. Over the past few weeks, pollsters have attempted to capture where Americans stand on this contentious economic battle, and the results are as clear as mud.
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If you think Congress and the White House have been divided on how to resolve the debt ceiling crisis, wait until you see what the American people think about it.
But does this agreement match what Americans have been hoping for in this crisis? Yes, it does.
The White House and Speaker of the House have come to a tentative - though as yet unpassed - agreement for raising the debt ceiling.
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