- The latest survey from J.L. Partners for the Daily Mail show waning support
By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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A shock new poll shows the majority of voters are against Donald Trump‘s signature tax ‘big beautiful’ bill signaling concern for the GOP.
The Republican-led Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBB) aims to provide $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for babies, eliminate taxes on tips and overtime work, provide billions for border wall and increase the U.S. debt limit.
GOP leaders, and the 79-year-old president, have highlighted how the bill will provide for ‘the largest tax cut in history’ and economic relief to the middle class.
The over 1,000-page bill also adds new work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP recipients. It also would ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next 10 years – a provision that has infuriated a major Trump ally.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the massive measure will add $2.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt from 2025 – 2034 while reducing taxes by $3.75 trillion.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has likened the bill to a ‘tax scam’ that will give tax breaks to the GOP’s ‘billionaire donors.’ He claims that bill will actually add $2 trillion to the U.S. budget deficit.
As the parties wrangle over the trillion-dollar legislation, U.S. voters have seemingly already made up their mind on the matter.
According to the latest J.L. Partners poll for the Daily Mail, just one in four Americans back the the BBB, feedback that may spell trouble for Republicans.
President Donald Trump’s landmark Big Beautiful Bill Act was only supported by 28 percent of respondents in the most recent poll for the Daily Mail
Speaker Mike Johnson has sold the Big Beautiful Bill Act as the most meaningful GOP legislation in years, though the most recent J.L Partners poll for the Daily Mail found the measure is not very popular with voters
The survey found that just 28 percent of Americans support the Trump-led measure while 36 percent are against it.
The remainder either were unsure or neither supported or opposed the legislation.
According to the survey, the package has a negative net approval rating of -8.
Republicans were the most likely group to support the BBB, receiving a +36 rating among self-identified party members.
But the support for the bill completely evaporated among independents and Democrats.
Asked if they would support Trump’s landmark legislation, unaffiliated voters had a net opposition of -14, while Democrats had a staggering -41 opposition to the BBB.
The J.L. Partners survey was not the only recent bad poll for the bill, however.
A recent CBS News/YouGov poll also found that 47 percent of respondents think the measure will hurt middle-class Americans.
The survey found 31 percent who said the measure will benefit them.
Trump has told lawmakers that he wants the Senate to pass the bill by July 4th
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has worked to protect Medicaid from some of his GOP colleagues reforms. He is working to gather a coalition of GOP senators to shield the program
The measure has already passed the House and it is expected to be voted on by the Senate before July 4, a self-imposed deadline handed down to rank-and-file members from GOP leadership.
Though as negotiations have stalled, and the House has delayed in transmitting the bill to the upper-chamber, the timeline is tightening for Senate Republicans.
Senators will certainly amend the House’s version of the bill and seek to add their influence over the package.
Different factions have emerged in the Senate about what provisions need to be changed.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., for example, has threatened to withhold his vote alongside other conservative members over the BBB’s impact on the growing budget deficit.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., meanwhile, is fighting to protect Medicaid – a popular target for his GOP colleagues.
The emerging forces could spell significant changes for the Trump-backed measure.
Though should the bill pass out of the Senate it would need to go back to the House to be confirmed before the 1,000-page bill makes its way to Trump’s desk for his signature.






