by Ireland Owens
A Gallup poll released Friday shows that a record number of Americans believe the U.S. government currently has “too much power.”
Newly released questionnaire found that 62% of Americans said federal government it has too much power, which is a record level. That number is up from 51% a year ago and is also the highest Gallup trend since 2002, according to the poll.
The previous highest number of Americans who thought the U.S. government had too much power was 60%, which was recorded during former President Barack’s term Obama Gallup reported that his second term would be in 2013 and 2015.
Moreover, according to the poll, 66% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said the government has become too powerful, up from 25% in 2024. Meanwhile, the Gallup poll found that 58% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said the same, up from 75% in 2024.
According to Gallup, the poll results published on Friday for the first time since 2003-2007 showed that Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say that the federal government had too much power.
Additionally, some polls released this year show that a majority of Americans disapprove of this approach Congress copes with his job. Separate Gallup vote released on August 7 showed that Congress had only 26% of overall approval among Americans.
The survey was conducted via telephone interviews between September 2 and 16 among a random sample of 1,000 adults living in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia. The poll’s margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
Currently, the federal government is almost $40 trillion in debt, representation According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio is 100%. Budget for fiscal year 2025 expected to be added The CBO reported the deficit at $1.9 trillion. So does the budget office projects the debt to GDP ratio will be 118%. CBO noted that spending on Medicaid and Social Security will account for nearly 25 percent of total spending, totaling nearly $11 trillion.
CBO estimates that America’s GDP growth will begin to decline over the next decade. The budget office reports that in the years 2030-2035, GDP growth will amount to 1.8%. annually.
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Ireland Owens is a reporter with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Zachery Schmidt is a digital editor Star News Network and contributed to this story.
