The U.S President Donald Trump has vetoed a bill to block his national emergency declaration on Friday. Various polls suggest Trump’s decision was popular among his Republicans. But, his decision to use executive power to fund a wall along the southern U.S border is opposed by a clear majority of the public. At least 7 polls were taken from early January to early March 2019. The Americans oppose Trump’s decision to use emergency powers to build a border wall with a 2-to-1 margin. It is a wider margin than the U.S Senate resolution to overturn Trump’s declaration of national emergency as it was passed by a 59-to-41 vote margin.
The most recent poll on the issue comes from Monmouth University. It was in the field between 1 and 4 March 2019. Monmouth found 65% of Americans disapproved Trump’s declaring a national emergency in order to use funding designated for the US military to build a wall along the Mexican border. Monmouth asked a similar question in January but didn’t include the part regarding using designated military funds to pay for the border wall. Opinion budged between then and now. The disapproval is now 65-33 and it was 64-34 in January 2019. The questions with slightly different wording generated nearly identical results across the months.
An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found 60% of registered voters disapproved Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to build a wall of over 200 miles along the U.S-Mexico border. The NPR-PBS News Hour-Marist found 61% who disapproved Trump’s declaring a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border. CNN also found 66% of respondents agreed Trump shouldn’t declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the border with Mexico. The Washington Post-ABC News poll in early January has indicated an identical 66% opposed the Trump’s using emergency powers to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border.