A new poll sponsored by the National Journal shows a 41 percent plurality of Americans hope that Congress sticks to the debt ceiling deal they reached last summer, which is set to automatically cut both domestic programs and defense spending by $600 billion. Both sets of reductions could have been avoided through a deal from the specially created Congressional Supercommittee on debt, which failed to reach an accord in late 2011.
The remaining voters thought the deal should be altered in different ways: 26 percent said the agreement should be alatered to take more from the domestic side, while 20 percent the whole thing should be scraped and nothing should be cut.
