A majority of Republicans in a recent survey said they want Congress to end the Iran war, which has stretched into its eighth month and increased gas and grocery prices.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Tuesday, found that 71 percent of respondents support legislation to end the Middle East conflict. This included 93 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of Republicans.
President Trump’s approval rating for managing the Iran war has dipped to 26 percent. Another 62 percent of respondents disapproved of his policies around the conflict, 10 percent didn’t know and 2 percent skipped the question, the survey shows.
Among Democrats, 5 percent backed the president on the issue and 92 percent didn’t, while the remainder said they were unsure or skipped the question. For Republicans, 59 percent supported Trump on the Iran war, 31 percent did not, 9 percent did not know and less than half a percent skipped the question, according to the poll.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, attributed the rising unpopularity of the war to his October estimations, which found that it has cost American households $2,000 so far.
“Consider that the war’s costs taken together have absorbed about half the average American household’s income gain over the past eight months,” Zandi wrote on the social platform X. “No wonder the war is so unpopular.”
The conflict has cost the country at least $47 billion, while causing energy prices to skyrocket.
Congressional Democrats have listed ending the war as a top priority following the midterm election, which will give the party majorities in both the House and Senate next year.
“We are going to end the war. We have some Republicans already who have joined us in ending the war,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference last week.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, has partnered with outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on multiple failed Iran war powers resolutions. Khanna has also floated the idea of reintroducing further blocks to the war effort, including cutting off funding.
Trump over the weekend said the U.S. military was “unlikely” to renew attacks on Tehran as negotiations continue.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted Nov. 6-9 among 1,705 respondents. The margin of error is 2.4 percentage points for all respondents.
