The Fix Analysis
The GOP’s big tax-cut gamble appears to be paying dividends
By Aaron Blake February 1 at 7:00 AM
A month ago Republicans passed what was, according to some measures, the most unpopular bill in decades: their tax plan.
Today, it’s looking more and more like that was a risk well worth taking.
A day after President Trump played up the tax cuts in his State of the Union address, a Monmouth poll showed a huge swing in favor of the bill. While just 26 percent of Americans approved of the package in mid-December, as lawmakers were putting the final touches on it, support in the latest poll rose to 44 percent. For a bill that sometimes polled with twice as many opponents as supporters, it’s now on level terms, with just as many supporters as opponents (44 percent).
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