More than 40 percent of U.S. adults shared their disapproval of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” — legislation full of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities.
The Washington-Ipsos poll, released Tuesday, shows that 42 percent of respondents said they either “somewhat” or “strongly” opposed the legislation, which includes sweeping cuts to Medicaid, expands Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and raises the debt limit.
Another 23 percent said they either “strongly” or “somewhat” supported the bill, while 34 percent said they had “no opinion,” according to the survey.
Republicans were more likely than Democrats to back the bill. Just under 50 percent of GOP respondents said they support the megabill, 13 percent said they oppose and 38 percent had no opinion. On the other side, three-quarters of Democrats said they were against it, per the poll.
Roughly 40 percent of independents also oppose the spending package compared to 17 percent who backed it. Another 40 percent said they had no opinion on the bill, the survey shows.
The results come after the Senate unveiled its version of the bill on Monday. The upper chamber’s blueprint is similar to the House-passed bill, but includes steeper cuts to welfare programs, makes the 2017 corporate tax cuts permanent and largely phases out renewable-energy tax cuts put in place under the Biden administration.
The legislative text, released by Senate Finance Committee Republicans, represents the center of the president’s “big, beautiful bill” and features tax breaks Trump campaigned on, including provisions to protect tipped income from taxation.
When asked about how much they heard about the House-passed version, which was advanced in May, more respondents were seemingly in the dark. About 40 percent said they had heard a “little,” 26 percent said they heard “nothing at all,” 11 percent said “a great deal” and 23 percent said, “a good amount,” the poll found.
When asked about the amount they had “heard about” within the version of the “big, beautiful bill” that passed the House in May, 40 percent said they had heard “a little,” 26 percent said they had heard “nothing at all,” 11 percent said they had heard “a great deal” and 23 percent said they had heard “a good amount.”
“THE CHOICE IS CLEAR: If the One Big Beautiful Bill passes, Americans will see the largest tax cut in history,” the White House’s Rapid Response team wrote Tuesday on social platform X.
“If the One Big Beautiful Bill does not pass, Americans will see the largest tax hike in history,” it added.
Lawmakers have just over two weeks to negotiate in order to pass the bill by a self-set July 4 deadline.
The Washington Post-Ipsos poll was conducted from June 6-10 among 1,167 U.S. adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
