Voters overwhelmingly support the House Republican leader’s demand that any increase in the national debt come with spending cuts, a blow to President Joe Biden’s unlimited spending plan.
In a new survey provided exclusively to Secrets, 80% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats said that “it’s reasonable to cut government spending at the same time.”
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Overall, voters agreed that, “In exchange for raising the debt ceiling, 73% of voters think it’s reasonable to cut government spending at the same time,” according to the analysis.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Biden are scheduled to meet today to begin talks about raising the debt ceiling above the $31.4 trillion borrowing limit. McCarthy wants spending cuts, though he has pushed reductions to Social Security and Medicare off the table. Biden wants no cuts, and some Democrats are pushing to remove spending and borrowing caps.
The poll from RMG Research was conducted for the America First Policy Institute, the Trump-linked think tank.
The survey results helped to portray the GOP plan to allow a debt limit increase with spending cuts as a common sense approach to the nation’s growing spending issues.
There were some differing reactions in the survey to the issue, but there wasn’t much reaction to threats made by the administration about the impact on the economy if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.
“When told that Treasury Department officials and other experts warned that refusing to raise the debt ceiling would severely impact the economy, support for increasing the debt ceiling with no spending cuts increased by just two percentage points,” said the analysis.
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While both sides agreed in big numbers that a trade-off is warranted in the McCarthy-Biden talks, there was also agreement for raising the debt ceiling. According to the survey:
- Just 27% of voters favor raising the debt ceiling without spending cuts.
- Forty-one percent believe it should be raised only with spending cuts.
- Only 14% believe that Congress should simply refuse to raise the debt ceiling.
