Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, Priebus asserted that the policies President Donald Trump had outlined to that point met with the approval of 80 per cent of the American public. We considered that claim and determined it to be true - if you considered only Republicans to be Americans. The pollsters gauged public opinion on a broad range of issues that have already emerged from the Trump White House - policy on Russia, transgender school bathroom use, deportations. Only infrastructure - spending more money to improve roads and airports, among other things - meets with overwhelming approval. Infrastructure spending is popular, and President Barack Obama consistently called for new spending, but no major infrastructure spending bill passed the Republican-controlled Congress.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 08, 2017 20:48 UTC