{"id":8800,"date":"2011-02-28T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:12:23","slug":"voters-favor-gov%e2%80%99t-shutdown-over-keeping-spending-at-current-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8800\/voters-favor-gov%e2%80%99t-shutdown-over-keeping-spending-at-current-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Favor Gov\u2019t Shutdown Over Keeping Spending at Current Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the congressional standoff over budget cuts heats up in Washington D.C., both Republicans and Democrats are seemingly scrambling to reach a compromise to avoid a government shutdown.\u00a0 But is compromise what the American people want?<\/p>\n<p>According to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/february_2011\/58_favor_government_shutdown_until_spending_cuts_are_agreed_upon\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen Reports survey<\/a>, 58% of likely voters \u201cwould rather have a partial shutdown of the federal government than keep its spending at current levels. \u201c\u00a0 A mere 33% would prefer Congress agree to maintain last year\u2019s spending level in order to avoid a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Broken out by party affiliation, Rasmussen found that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Democrats prefer avoiding a shutdown by going with current spending levels. But 80% of Republicans &#8212; and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party &#8212; think a shutdown is a better option until the two sides can agree on spending cuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the complete top-line survey results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/february_2011\/58_favor_government_shutdown_until_spending_cuts_are_agreed_upon\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the congressional standoff over budget cuts heats up in Washington D.C., both Republicans and Democrats are seemingly scrambling to reach a compromise to avoid a government shutdown.\u00a0 But is compromise what the American people want? According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, 58% of likely voters \u201cwould rather have a partial shutdown of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,391,2440,1758],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-federal-budget","tag-federal-spending","tag-government-shutdown","tag-rasmussen-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}