Survey Finds 53 Percent of Likely Voters Oppose Dems’ Union Pension Bailout

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Wash., on April 4, 2019. Yuri Gripas via Reuters

A national survey of likely voters found a majority of them oppose a taxpayer-funded bailout of ailing union pension plans approved earlier this year by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.

“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 53 percent of likely U.S. voters oppose a taxpayer bailout of underfunded union pension funds,” the survey firm said Sept. 14. “Just 26 percent support a pension bailout. A sizable 21 percent are undecided.”