Poll: Most Americans Dissatisfied With Budget Deal That Allows More Spending

• November 16, 2015

The majority of Americans dislike the budget deal Congress passed in October, according to a poll from the Economist Group and YouGov.

Sixty-one percent of those polled—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—said they are dissatisfied with the bipartisan budget deal and believe that “lawmakers should have stuck to lower spending levels.”

The remaining 39 percent agreed that the deal “is a positive move forward.”

>>> See How Your Senators Voted on Boehner-Obama Budget Deal

The budget deal, made law with President Barack Obama’s signature earlier this month, raises discretionary spending caps by $80 billion over fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2017, as The Daily Signal reported Oct. 30. It also suspends the national debt limit until March 15, 2017.

Conservatives in Congress denounced the debt limit extension and opposed breaking the discretionary spending caps created in 2011.

The rate of dissatisfaction measured in the poll was higher among Republicans and independents, with 79 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of independents viewing the budget deal as a bad move.

In contrast, only 42 percent of Democrats expressed a preference for “lower spending levels.”

The Economist Group and YouGov surveyed a random sample of 2,000 individuals between Nov. 5 and 9. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

>>> Find Out How Your Congressman Voted on the Budget Deal

Joshua Gill | Contributor

Joshua Gill is the religion reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation. He is a former member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.

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