For the poll, researchers conducted telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,025 adults living across the U.S.
Here are the top priorities Americans said Congress and the president should examine in 2019, including the percentage of respondents who voted for each issue:
- Education — 87 percent
- Healthcare policy — 85 percent
- The economy — 85 percent
- Social Security — 80 percent
- Federal budget deficit — 76 percent
- Immigration — 75 percent
- Drug misuse — 75 percent
- U.S. infrastructure — 72 percent
- U.S. trade and tariff policy — 71 percent
- Gun policy — 66 percent
- Climate change — 62 percent
- Income and wealth distribution — 62 percent
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