Voters oppose Trump power grab

Voters oppose Trump power grab

The New York Times reports:

[A New York Times/Siena College poll found] [b]road majorities said they would prefer to place limits on exactly the kinds of powers that Mr. Trump has tried to exercise:

  • 61 percent of voters, including 33 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to impose tariffs without authorization from Congress.
  • 54 percent, including 26 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to eliminate programs enacted by Congress.
  • 63 percent, including 40 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to deport legal immigrants who have protested Israel.
  • 73 percent of voters, including 56 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to send American citizens to prison in El Salvador, as Mr. Trump has threatened to do.
  • And as Mr. Trump’s administration has veered toward open defiance of court orders, a sky-high 76 percent of voters, and 61 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to ignore the Supreme Court.

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