Questions - Debt Ceiling - August 1-2, 2011
29% Favor Automatic Spending Cuts If Congress Doesn’t Reduce Spending By $1.5 Trillion
Just 22% Approve of Debt Ceiling Deal, Most Doubt It Will Cut Spending
Platinum Pages
National Survey of
1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted August 1-2, 2011
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
How closely have you followed news reports about the debt ceiling debate in
Congress?
2*
Do you approve or disapprove of the plan Congress and the president have agreed
on to raise the government debt ceiling?
3*
How likely is it that the debt ceiling agreement between Congress and the
president will result in a significant decrease in government spending over the
next few years?
4*
Under the agreement, will government spending a few years from now be higher,
lower or about the same?
5*
If Congress doesn’t reduce spending by $1.5
trillion over the next ten years, would you favor or oppose automatic spending cuts
including cuts from defense spending and Medicare?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
