{"id":1540654,"date":"2022-07-06T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540654"},"modified":"2022-07-06T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:05:25","slug":"most-americans-say-federal-government-actions-are-hurting-them-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-americans-say-federal-government-actions-are-hurting-them-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans Say Federal Government Actions Are Hurting Them: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmost-americans-say-federal-government-actions-are-hurting-them-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new poll shows that a majority of Americans feel that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-federal-government\">federal government<\/a> actions over the past six months have hurt their families and that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s policies have not benefited the middle class at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Monmouth University poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/monmouthpoll_us_070522\/\">released on<\/a> July 5, reveals that the number of Americans who are struggling financially has jumped by double digits in the past year as soaring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation\">inflation<\/a> has outpaced wage gains and sparked a cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomic concerns tend to rise to the top of the list of family concerns, as you might expect, but the singular impact of inflation is really hitting home right now,\u201d Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Americans are blaming Washington for their current pain,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which was carried out on a representative sample of 978 adults in the United States, shows that a majority (57 percent) said that the actions of the federal government over the past six months have hurt their family when it comes to their key concern.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time ever in the history of Monmouth polling that the share of Americans blaming Washington for making their chief concern worse has climbed above 50 percent. Prior polls saw that figure vary between 34 percent and 47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A mere 8 percent said federal government policies have helped them while 34 percent said Washington actions have not had a meaningful impact when it comes to their main concern, the poll also shows.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/thomas-massie-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in Washington on March 8, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the findings of the poll was Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1544347338575151105?s=20&#038;t=VlIXi5i5C8ZT8XvNMYHeWA\">said in a Twitter post<\/a>, \u201cPeople are beginning to understand that those $1200 stimmy checks were the cheese in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll shows that a majority of Americans feel that federal government actions over the past six months have hurt their families and that President Joe Biden\u2019s policies have not benefited the middle class at all. 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