Americans Increasingly See the Shutdown As Serious

A new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that 71% of Americans now see the partial government shutdown as at least somewhat serious problem, a modest uptick from 62% last week and 61% at the beginning of the shutdown.

The share who consider it very serious now stands at 42%, up from one-third last week.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds a 51^ majority said President Trump “deserves most of the blame” for the shutdown, up four percentage points from two weeks earlier. About a third, 32%, blame congressional Democrats.