How young Trump voters are viewing his presidency: From the Politics Desk
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In today’s edition, Ben Kamisar and Bridget Bowman report the conclusions of our last discussion groups with young voters who supported President Donald Trump in 2024. In addition, Kristen Welker describes the dynamics that could determine how long the closure hard. And Sahil Kapur answers this week’s reader’s reader’s question on the government’s closure process.
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How Trump’s young voters see his presidency
By Ben Kamisar and Bridget Bowman
President Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 was partly fed by improved figures among young voters. But new discussion groups reveal why certain members of the cohort are starting to turn to the approach of its administration in the field of immigration and the economy.
“I believe that my confidence in the administration has completely made the start of the way it is poorly managed,” said Anthony H., a 22 -year -old Nevada republican, pointing to immigration and foreign affairs.
Anthony was one of the 14 Trump voters in the swing state under the age of 30 who participated in recent discussion groups observed by NBC News as part of the 2025 “Deciders” series, produced by the University of Syracuse and the commitment firms Engagious and Sago.
These voters were a key element in Trump’s coalition in the presidential election last year. It was favored by 43% of voters aged 18 to 29, after winning 36% in 2020, according to the exit survey of NBC News. The exit survey also showed that Trump winning 49% of young men in 2024, compared to 48% for Kamala Harris, while Trump dragged among young women, winning 38% of this group.
Of the 14 young Trump voters who participated in the recent discussion groups, Nine said he had disapproved of Trump’s overall professional performance so far, while five approved. The group was made of eight self-identified independents and six republicans.
Surveys have shown that young supporters of Trump, while supporting him largely, disapprove of his presidency at higher rates than older Trump voters. But a large majority of Trump voters through age groups continue to support the president.
“Trump’s young voters who disapprove of the president’s professional performance deplore themselves how it goes too far or not far enough,” said Rich Thau, president of Engagious, who moderated the sessions.
“For them, the president greatly exceeds his mandate – as on immigration and prices – or he fails to arrest wars abroad, or be transparent on Jeffrey Epstein,” said Thau, referring to the financial deceased by suicide while being confronted with accusations of sex traffic in 2019.
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Potential pressure points to monitor the government closure extend
Kristen Welker analysis
It is day 3 of the government’s closure, and the Democrats and the Republicans with which I spoke throughout the week specified one thing: there is no end in sight.
Both sides are completely dug, and there are no real negotiations that occur behind the scenes to find a path to follow. So, what could really put pressure on both sides to come to the table?
One dynamic to watch is the way the Americans treat the closure and which they blame for the dead end. Recent surveys, taken shortly before stopping or right at the start, showed that about a quarter of respondents do not know who blame, or have not heard enough about the stop to decide who is responsible. If they choose one side, the party is blamed for the closure could face more calls to make a concession.
Delays in federal services could be another potential pressure point, with 750,000 federal workers on leave due to the closure and others working without salary. Could food aid programs be delayed accordingly and could we start to see longer lines in food banks? Could there be delays in airports when employees work without salary?
Remember that during the 2018-2019 closure, many TSA employees who worked without salary began to call the sick, causing delays in travel. These tangible impacts helped move President Donald Trump and the Republicans to retreat from their calls to finance a wall on the southern border, and ended the longest closure in American history.
The economic impact and the market response will also be essential to monitor in the days, or potentially weeks, to come. Trump responded to market pressure, notably bringing the scanning rates earlier this year after his advisers presented him with bond markets. As Steve Kopack of NBC News points out, previous closures have had limited economic impacts, but the financing periods could threaten the American credit rating. And threats from the Trump administration to dismiss more federal workers may affect the labor market.
We will discuss the latest government’s last closure on “Meet The Press” this Sunday with President Mike Johnson, R-La., The minority leader of the Hakeem Jeffries room, DN.Y., and Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
The last on the closure:
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✉️ Mailbag: Why finance the government to us this way?
Thank you to everyone who sent us an email! Here is the question of this week’s reader:
“Why can’t the government spend its funding for more than a few weeks or months at the same time?”
To answer this, we turned to one of our resident experts from Capitol Hill, Sahil Kapur. Here is his answer:
How long do you have? 😂
The short answer: It takes a bipartite agreement to finance the Government (due to the threshold of 60 Senate vote) and the two parties are often disagreeing on how to do so. Thus, when this happens, the only options are either a closure or a short -term extension of funding at existing levels – for a few days, weeks or months. Most of the time, we get the short -term invoices. Now we have a stop because the two parties could not even agree on a short -term solution.
The longer answer: The so-called process of credits for the financing of the government has broken down, as we have covered here in detail. * Let’s have the reasons.
First, disagreements between the two parties have become greater in recent decades while Democrats and Republicans are more ideologically separated. This includes everything, overall expenditure levels in the way of allocating it to political “riders” or to the modules additional to financing invoices, which are quite common.
Second, the Congress credit committees have weakened over time (like the other committees) and the centralized leadership of the two parties has become stronger. Thus, people who are supposed to be responsible for reducing these transactions to finance the government no longer have the juice to do so and carry the votes.
Third, the trend towards the negotiations of “four corners” – where the president of the chamber, the chief of the minority of the chamber, the head of the majority of the Senate and the head of the minority of the Senate concluded an agreement which can pass the two chambers and win a presidential signature – was criticized, mainly of the conservatives of the Chamber, who call it marshy, of the background. Thus, the rescue solution which had often worked to reduce government financing agreements has also been undermined, and we now have a dynamic where people supposed to be in charge are not empowered, and the people who are entitled to the priority to take care of.
Fourth, in the current context, it exerted enormous pressure on the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber, R-La., And the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., to refuse to negotiate directly with the Democrats on the financing of bills. Consequently, they refuse to negotiate with their counterparts on how to reopen the government. Democratic leaders say that they will not be a cheap date and do not give their votes for nothing, even on a short -term bill; They want health care funding in exchange.
Like Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Member of the credit committee, recently said to me: “We have no credits. He is broken. He was broken for a while. ”
(* Not that it was in great terms: since the dawn of the modern budgetary process dating from 1976, the only congress four times adopted all the bills of time credits in the regular process was in 1977, 1989, 1995 and 1997.))
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