Majority of Americans oppose emergency declaration

By Emily Guskin
March 15 at 4:46 PM

... Numerous polls suggest Trump’s decision was popular among his Republican base. But his decision to use executive authority to fund a wall along the southern border is opposed by a clear majority of the public.

That is reflected in six polls taken from early January to early March. By roughly a 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose Trump’s decision to use emergency powers to build a border wall. That’s a wider margin than the Senate resolution to overturn Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, which passed 59 to 41 ...

The most recent poll on the issue comes from Monmouth University and was in the field between March 1 and 4. Monmouth found 65 percent of Americans disapproved of Trump “declaring a national emergency in order to use funding designated for the U.S. military to build a wall along the Mexican border.”

In January, Monmouth asked a similar question but didn’t include the part about “using designated military funds to pay for the wall.” Opinion barely budged between then and now. Disapproval now is 65 percent vs. 33 percent approval; then it was 64 to 34 ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/15/clear-majority-americans-oppose-trumps-emergency-declaration/?utm_term=.8d4d760fc8b4