Name: Majority of Americans think GOP benefited more from shutdown end deal
Uploaded: 2025-11-18T00:58:08.485Z
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Description: After the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, a new CBS News poll is revealing who Americans believe ultimately succeeded. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto breaks down the findings.

After the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, a new CBS News poll is revealing who Americans believe ultimately succeeded. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto breaks down the findings.

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A recent CBS News poll indicates that a majority of Americans believe President Trump and the Republican Party gained more from the deal that ended the longest government shutdown in US history. Only a small percentage of respondents felt that Democrats succeeded in the negotiations, with many Democratic voters expressing frustration and dissatisfaction with their party's handling of the situation.

The poll also reveals that two-thirds of Americans anticipate an increase in health insurance premiums following the reopening of the government. Additionally, just over half of respondents expect improvements in air travel and transportation, while the political ramifications of the shutdown are expected to persist into 2026.

Majority of Americans think GOP benefited more from shutdown end deal

After the longest shutdown in US history today marks the first full week the government is open again and a new CBS News poll shows Americans believe who Americans believe succeeded in the end 55% of Respondents and I'm gonna ask him in a second I believe it's Democratic respondents say President Trump and Republicans Got more of what they wanted in the deal that ended the stalemate just 6% say Democrats succeeded in the negotiation So here he is CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvato joining us now. Did I get that right? Well, take a look at this This is the majority of Americans who say that Donald Trump and Republicans got more out of the deal, right? Many more than say the Democrats did but the compelling thing here is when you look inside the parties and I'll show you this Among Democrats just over half of them think their party compromised too much And what's important about that is that this tells a story not just looking back But also looking forward because you're going to see this dynamic play out through 2026 How does a party that is out of power deal with right the executive that's in power, etc? This is part of what played out in the shutdown and you don't always see a party Critical if you will of how its own party in Congress handled things to this extent So that's really notable and then I'll just sort of button it up with this The thing Democrats were telling us that they felt number one answer was frustrated and dissatisfied so that kind of puts all that context to what they've just seen this could be Emblematic of a greater problem within the party that many Democrats feel like their lawmakers aren't fighting hard enough for them, right? We have seen that in other polling Democrats saying that they're frustrated that they want to see more opposition But of course technically they don't have the votes, right? Right? What were the expectations for how things might change now? The government has reopened. Okay, so this is the looking forward part, right a couple of things One is you do see two-thirds of Americans thinking that their health insurance premiums in general might increase, okay? That's that big number. But the other part is look over the last month We've covered so much about many things including air travel and air Transportation and now just over half do think that that will get better But right the politics of this going forward into 2026 are certainly going to echo for a while That's 65% thinking their health care premiums will go up. That's fascinating People are often skeptical about what might happen to cost especially these days But the other part of this is that most people said in the poll that they knew that this fight was about health care And so to that extent that overall context was there interesting Anthony. So not to thank you as always

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