Americans' views on immigration take a positive swing
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
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Americans' views on immigration took a positive swing this year.
USA TODAY Senior National Political Correspondent Sarah D. Wire discusses how states are scrambling for funds after President Trump's cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, July 14th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excert. |
| 0:14.6 | Today, checking in on Americans' immigration views. Plus, how states are scrambling for funds after Trump's cuts to Medicaid and snap, and what does made in the USA really mean? |
| 0:27.5 | Americans' views on immigration took a massive positive swing this year amid President Donald Trump's ongoing crackdown, according to New Gallup polling. |
| 0:35.2 | The share of Americans who thought immigration should decrease |
| 0:37.7 | 55 percent reached a five-year high point in 2024. This year it has dropped to 30 percent, |
| 0:43.9 | and positive views of immigration have hit a record high of 79 percent. The Trump administration ramped |
| 0:49.6 | up its promise to carry out widespread deportations in June, sending out mass immigration agents to raid |
| 0:54.9 | restaurants, farms, and hardware stores, and touching off widespread protests. He's also unveiled |
| 0:59.9 | a new Alligator-Alcatraz detention facility for migrants in the Florida Everglades. His administration |
| 1:05.3 | has also faced a slew of legal challenges. During former President Joe Biden's administration, |
| 1:10.1 | Americans' views and immigration |
| 1:11.3 | took a dip amid a surge of migration and reports of disarray on the southern border. |
| 1:20.7 | States are scrambling for funds after President Trump's cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. I spoke with USA |
| 1:26.3 | today's senior national political correspondent Sarah De DeWire, to learn more. |
| 1:30.7 | Thanks as always for joining me, Sarah. Thanks for having me. So how much states now fit Medicaid and |
| 1:35.9 | snap cuts into their budgets? The bill passed by Congress and signed into law requires states to take on a greater |
| 1:42.6 | share of the Medicaid costs, including administrative costs |
| 1:46.6 | and hospital costs. And for the first time, it's going to require them to take on a percentage |
| 1:51.0 | of the cost of food assistance, including SNAP. And what else there are states facing as the |
| 1:56.0 | administration pushes off, you know, a lot of these costs onto the states to help whittle down |
| 2:00.3 | federal government spending? You know, they're of these costs onto the states to help whittle down federal government spending. |
| 2:01.7 | You know, they're seeing some really explicit things, such as the Medicaid and snap cuts. |
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