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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayPresident Donald Trump’s plan to pin the government shutdown on Democrats isn’t quite landing, according to a poll published by The Washington Post on Thursday.
In a survey of 1,010 Americans, 47% said Trump and the Republican-led Congress are most responsible for the political standoff, while 30% of respondents blamed Democratic lawmakers and 23% said they are “not sure.”
Broken down along party lines, the data also showed a significant gap between both parties’ beliefs.
67% of GOP-aligned voters polled said their rival party was at fault, while 87% of Democrats deemed Trump and the Republicans culpable.
Self-identified independents overwhelmingly blamed Trump and Republicans, with results revealing a 50% to 22% margin.

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Asked about Democrats central reason for voting against the stopgap budget bill, 71% of the total respondents agreed that federal health insurance subsidies should be extended and only 29% said that they should expire at the end of 2025 as planned.
Republicans are using a range of shady tactics to try and convince voters Democratic legislators are responsible for the shutdown.
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Distorting Democrats’ push to rollback Medicare cuts that were passed in July, members of the GOP have been falsely accusing the opposing party of holding the bill hostage in exchange for health care benefits for undocumented immigrants.
Furloughed employees at the Department of Health and Human Services were reportedly ordered to tweak their automated out-of-office replies to reflect Republican talking points, according to an agency-wide memo obtained by HuffPost.
On Wednesday, a banner claiming “the Radical Left in Congress shut down the government” popped up on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website. Sites for the Department of Justice also added a similar message.


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