POLL: Border Wall Last On List Of Voters’ Priorities

Morning Consult reports:



President Donald Trump has spent much of the past month saying it’s imperative that Congress helps him build his proposed border wall with Mexico. But as lawmakers searched for a deal with the White House to avert a partial government shutdown, a new Morning Consult/Politico poll shows voters place wall funding at the bottom of a list of 10 actions they say should be a top priority for Congress.

According to the Dec. 14-16 poll, construction of the border wall was listed by 22 percent of all voters listing it as a “top priority.” By contrast, health care reform led the list of top priorities at 43 percent. The poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points. Fifty-five percent of voters said increased funding for the border wall is not important enough for a shutdown, compared with 31 percent who said it was.