In Praise of Trump ... finally winning... our President
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Unless it goes through Congress it can and will be reversed with the sign of a pen by the democrat president in Jan 2021
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/trumps-approval-ratings-drop-in-every-state.html
Trump's approval ratings drop in every state
Christina Wilkie | @christinawilkie
- A new survey from Morning Consult finds that President Trump's approval ratings have fallen in every state since he took office.
- Nationwide, Trump's net job approval has dipped by 19 points since January.
- The survey interviewed 472,000 registered voters across 50 states.
Published 9:57 AM ET Tue, 10 Oct 2017
President Donald Trump's approval ratings have dropped in every state since he took office, according to a large new poll released Tuesday by Morning Consult.
The poll, which surveyed 472,000 registered voters between January and September, also found a 19-point drop in Trump's net approval ratings nationwide.
Trump has failed to improve his standing among voters anywhere, the poll found, even in the states where he won by large margins in the 2016 presidential election.
The results paint a worrisome picture for Senate Republicans next year, who will be defending eight seats. Democrats, however, will be fighting to hold on to 25 seats, making the overall risk of Republicans losing their Senate majority relatively small.
In Tennessee, Trump's net approval rating is down 23 points. Indiana saw a negative swing of 17 points. Both states have Senate races in 2018.
The number of voters who disapprove of Trump's job performance nationwide has also climbed by double digits: In January, the president's disapproval rating was 39 percent — by September that figure had climbed 13 points, to 52 percent.
In Nevada and Arizona, two states where vulnerable Republican senators are running for re-election next year, 51 percent of voters statewide said they disapproved of Trump's job performance.
The sheer size of the president's negative approval swings also suggests that in some states, independents and Democrats may be starting to coalesce into one voting bloc.
And in Washington, where positive approval ratings often translate into political clout on Capitol Hill, the poll bodes poorly for the White House.
As the Trump administration prepares to push a tax overhaul bill and possible immigration reform, the numbers suggest that the president's leverage could be diminished in these and future fights.
The poll's margin of error ranged from 2 to 6 percentage points, with lower error margins in more populous states.
Polls were rigged from the get go.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/pol...-favor-trump-making-health-care-law-work.html
Fix Obamacare, don't sabotage it: 7 out of 10 Americans favor Trump making health-care law work
Published 1:20 PM ET Fri, 13 Oct 2017 Updated 2:06 PM ET Fri, 13 Oct 2017 CNBC.com
A new poll finds that 7 out of 10 Americans believe it is more important that President Donald Trump help make Obamacare work than to make it fail.
The poll released Friday comes a day after Trump dropped a bombshell on those marketplaces by cutting off billions of dollars of federal reimbursement payments to Obamacare insurers.
The Kaiser Family Foundation survey was conducted in the week before Trump's decision to kill those so-called cost-sharing reduction payments, a decision that is expected to lead to much-higher individual insurance plan premiums in the next several years.
The poll found that 60 percent of the public supported Congress guaranteeing those CSR payments "to help stabilize the insurance market."
"One-third think these payments amount to a bailout of insurance companies and should be stopped," the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a report on the poll.
But a total of 69 percent of respondents favored the idea of having Congress guaranteeing the CSR payments if it were part of a bipartisan legislation that would also give states more flexibility in the types of plans that can be sold on Obamacare marketplaces.
The CSRs compensate insurers for discounts in out-of-pocket health charges they must offer, by law, to low-income Obamacare customers.
The Trump administration said Thursday night the reimbursements to insurers for those discounts are illegal because the payments were not specifically authorized by Congress.
So from now on, unless Congress authorizes the money, insurers will still have to charge low-income customers less for their out-of-pocket costs without getting compensated by the government for those discounts.
The Kaiser poll found that 66 percent of Americans said it was more important that Trump and Congress work on legislation to bolster the marketplaces than to continue their efforts to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Despite that strong support, 70 percent of Americans said they were either "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that Trump and Congress will be able to work together to make improvements to those marketplaces.
However, Trump reportedly has suggested he is open to a bipartisan deal that could restore the CSRs.
The poll found that strong majorities of Democrats and independents favored steps that would support Obamacare.
In contrast, Republicans, as a group, tended to oppose such steps, albeit less strongly than Democrats supported them.
However, 68 percent of Republicans favored the idea of Congress guaranteeing the CSRs as part of bipartisan legislation to give states more flexibility in their Obamacare marketplaces. That was just one percentage point less than the share of Democrats who backed that idea.
The poll was conducted from Oct. 5 through Tuesday, and questioned 1,215 adults over the phone. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Fix Obamacare, don't sabotage it: 7 out of 10 Americans favor Trump making health-care law work
- A poll found that 7 out of 10 people believe it is more important for President Donald Trump to help make Obamacare work than to make it fail.
- The poll comes a day after Trump health officials said they would stop paying insurers billions of dollars worth of reimbursements for discounts insurers must give low-income Obamacare customers.
- Few Americans believe that Trump and Congress will be able to reach a deal that could improve Obamacare markets.
Published 1:20 PM ET Fri, 13 Oct 2017 Updated 2:06 PM ET Fri, 13 Oct 2017 CNBC.com
A new poll finds that 7 out of 10 Americans believe it is more important that President Donald Trump help make Obamacare work than to make it fail.
The poll released Friday comes a day after Trump dropped a bombshell on those marketplaces by cutting off billions of dollars of federal reimbursement payments to Obamacare insurers.
The Kaiser Family Foundation survey was conducted in the week before Trump's decision to kill those so-called cost-sharing reduction payments, a decision that is expected to lead to much-higher individual insurance plan premiums in the next several years.
The poll found that 60 percent of the public supported Congress guaranteeing those CSR payments "to help stabilize the insurance market."
"One-third think these payments amount to a bailout of insurance companies and should be stopped," the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a report on the poll.
But a total of 69 percent of respondents favored the idea of having Congress guaranteeing the CSR payments if it were part of a bipartisan legislation that would also give states more flexibility in the types of plans that can be sold on Obamacare marketplaces.
The CSRs compensate insurers for discounts in out-of-pocket health charges they must offer, by law, to low-income Obamacare customers.
The Trump administration said Thursday night the reimbursements to insurers for those discounts are illegal because the payments were not specifically authorized by Congress.
So from now on, unless Congress authorizes the money, insurers will still have to charge low-income customers less for their out-of-pocket costs without getting compensated by the government for those discounts.
The Kaiser poll found that 66 percent of Americans said it was more important that Trump and Congress work on legislation to bolster the marketplaces than to continue their efforts to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Despite that strong support, 70 percent of Americans said they were either "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that Trump and Congress will be able to work together to make improvements to those marketplaces.
However, Trump reportedly has suggested he is open to a bipartisan deal that could restore the CSRs.
The poll found that strong majorities of Democrats and independents favored steps that would support Obamacare.
In contrast, Republicans, as a group, tended to oppose such steps, albeit less strongly than Democrats supported them.
However, 68 percent of Republicans favored the idea of Congress guaranteeing the CSRs as part of bipartisan legislation to give states more flexibility in their Obamacare marketplaces. That was just one percentage point less than the share of Democrats who backed that idea.
The poll was conducted from Oct. 5 through Tuesday, and questioned 1,215 adults over the phone. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
