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Poll: Most Americans Say Trump Makes Race Relations Worse
WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans say President Don- ald Trump has made race relations worse during his time in the White House, and more than two-thirds be- lieve it has become more common for people to say racist things since he won the White House.
This is according to a Pew Re- search Center poll released Tuesday that asked Americans their feelings about race in the United States.
Almost 3 out of 5 Americans, or 58%, say race relations in the U.S. are generally bad, and 56% of those in the Pew Research Center’s “Race in America 2019” survey said Trump has made race relations worse.
Only one-fourth, or 25%, said for- mer President Barack Obama, a Democrat and the country’s first black president, made race relations worse.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans, or 65%, also say it has become more common for people to express racist views since Trump took office.
“One of the key takeaways is that Americans have a negative view of the country’s racial progress and the cur-
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rent state of race relations,” said Ju- liana Menasce Horowitz, Pew’s associate director of research and one of the report’s authors.
Trump, a Republican, has been dogged by racial turmoil during his time in office, including the deadly vi- olence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a protest against a Confeder- ate statue and the administration’s reaction to illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border.
Democrats Ponder Power 0f The Purse To Get Full Mueller Report
Top Democrats on the House Appropria- tions Committee aren’t ready to wield their power over Justice De- partment funding to pressure Attorney General William Barr to provide the full special counsel report from Robert S. Mueller III — but they aren’t ruling it out ei- ther.
Rep. Jose E. Ser- rano, chairman of the subcommittee that over- sees the DOJ budget, told reporters that ap- propriators could pre- scribe that no dollars be used to block Mueller’s full report from being released — not that he’s saying that would hap- pen.
“I would consider whatever it takes to get people to see this re- port,” the New York De- mocrat said after a
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Justice Department budget hearing Tuesday. “This report is too im- portant for all of us, in- cluding you people behind the cameras.”
A subpoena fight could wind up in the courts for years, and a Congressional Research Service report noted that Congress could use other powers such as withholding appropria- tions to encourage dis- closure of the Mueller report.
House Appropria- tions Chairwoman Nita
M. Lowey took a more cautious approach Tues- day, saying she had to balance the report with the important law en- forcement and other pri- orities in the DOJ budget.
“Oh, I can put in all kinds of language there,” the New York Democrat told reporters. “But I would hope my budget is there to protect the people of the United States, and protect the Affordable Care Act, and protect the rights of citi- zens who worry about how they’re going to be treated in the courts.”
Lowey said the Ju- diciary Committee has the responsibility and right to subpoena the full report and fight to see any redacted infor- mation. And she noted that Congress hasn’t seen yet what Barr will release.
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