In the poll from The Washington Post, 47 percent of respondents said “Trump and Republicans in Congress” are “mainly responsible for the federal government partially shutting down,” while 30 percent pinned the blame on “Democrats in Congress” for the shutdown.

In the survey, 66 percent of respondents said they are either “very” or “somewhat” concerned over the shutdown, while 34 percent said they are “not too” or “not at all” concerned.

The Post poll took place Wednesday, featuring 1,010 people and a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world
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    16 hours ago

    Tons of MAGA simps and the Trump administration want the government shut down. It gives them another cover story for further firing of federal employees and withholding payments to programs they don’t like since their initial wave is getting slowed down by the courts.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes, Taco explicitly said he wants to do irreversible damage to this country under cover of a shutdown and then of course, blame the Democrats.

      Given Murc’s Law, I’m sure the tankies, the centrists, plenty of Democrats, and of course the goddamned “liberal media” will give a great big assist to that blaming. That’s in addition to, of course, the Republican Noise Machine…