Pollster Daniel Cox on Friday said that the party controlling the White House is less likely to care about deficit spending than the party that is not in power.
“Where are the fiscal conservatives? I mean, we used to have Republicans being hard on the deficit, deficit hawks. Where are they?” Hill.TV’s Jamal Simmons asked Cox on “What America’s Thinking.”
“Well, there’s a Republican in the White House, so they kind of evaporate,” Cox, a research director at the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), responded.
“When you look back to the early 2000s, what we see is the Democrats caring a lot about the deficit spending under George W. Bush, and when Obama is in the White House, Republicans then cared a lot about it,” he continued.
“So it really matters not so much about what we’re spending, but what we’re spending it on, and Democrats and Republicans have very different priorities.”
A new American Barometer poll found that 79 percent of Republicans said they approved of the work done by the administration and Republicans on the deficit; however, only 19 percent of Democrats said they approved.
— Julia Manchester
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