Questions - Government Shutdown - October 2 and 5-6, 2025

National Survey of 1,162 U.S. Likely Voters
Conducted October 2 and 5-6, 2025

By Rasmussen Reports

1* How closely have you followed recent news reports about the federal government shutdown?

2* In terms of your own personal life, how much of an impact have you felt from the shutdown?

3* Which political party is most to blame for the government shutdown, Republicans or Democrats? Or are both parties about equally to blame?

4* Do you agree or disagree with this statement: “Democrats shut down the government to give hundreds of billions of free healthcare to illegal aliens, including the millions of illegal aliens to whom [Joe] Biden [and the] Democrats gave illegal amnesty”?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence