Most Americans expect the national debt to increase under President-elect Donald Trump, according to the latest report Reuters/Ipsos survey It was carried out after the election.
In the poll, 62% of respondents said the returning president's proposal “would increase the U.S. national debt.” This includes 94% of Democrats and 34% of Republicans.
The poll was conducted online over two days until Thursday. The poll, which surveyed about 1,500 adults nationwide, had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
In a separate Wall Street Journal poll published before the election, economists also predicted that Trump's agenda would lead to higher inflation, the national deficit, and interest rates than Vice President Harris's plan. It turned out that.
The study comes amid ongoing debate on both sides of the aisle over how much President Trump's proposed policies would increase the national debt in the coming years.
A rough analysis released by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the plans proposed by both President Trump and Vice President Harris could increase the national debt by trillions of dollars by 2035. Yet President Trump's policies are estimated to cost about twice as much as the policies proposed by his competitors.
Among the biggest items the group highlighted was the estimated $5.35 trillion price tag attached to Mr. Trump's proposal to extend and amend parts of his signature 2017 tax law. Ta.
But while the Trump campaign and other Republicans deny the findings, they defend the president-elect's tax plan as good for the economy by raising revenue.
In the latest Reuters poll, 89% of Democrats said they were concerned about the possibility that Trump would increase the debt. Among Republicans, only 19% said the same.
