In Pew Research Center poll, foreign aid only option majority of surveyed supported cutting

Published on February 26, 2013 at 5:47 AM · No Comments

"Most Americans are worried about the federal deficit and say the government should cut spending, but few are willing to embrace specific cuts, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Friday," the Huffington Post's "Politics" blog reports (Edwards-Levy, 2/22). "According to Pew, 70 percent of Americans say it is essential for Washington to pass major legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit this year," but "they can't identify anything worth axing," the New York Times' "Economix" blog writes (Rampell, 2/22). But "[o]f 19 options for cutting government spending, only one -- reducing foreign aid -- was supported by more than 40 percent of Americans, according to [the] poll," Politico writes.

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