Jeder Balken zeigt die Lücke zwischen dem, was die Amerikaner als ihre größten Anliegen nennen (gemittelt aus vier großen Umfragen) und der tatsächlichen Ausrichtung der Gesetzgebungsbemühungen des Kongresses (gewichtet nach der Stufe der Gesetzesvorlage: eingeführt = 1×, in Kraft gesetzt = 10×).
Wie es gemessen wird:
- Öffentlich % gemittelt über Gallup, AP-NORC, Pew Research Center und Reuters/Ipsos "wichtigstes Problem" Umfragen (Dez. 2025–Mai 2026), dann normalisiert auf 100 %
- Kongress % alle Gesetzentwürfe im 119. Kongress, kategorisiert nach CRS-Politikbereich, gewichtet nach Fortschrittsstadium, normalisiert auf 100 %
- Lücke = öffentlicher % minus Kongress %
Was auffällt:
- Staatsverschuldung/-defizit 13,2 % der Amerikaner nennen es als größtes Problem; Nur 2,9 % der gesetzgeberischen Aktivitäten befassen sich damit
- Das Land vereinen Der Kongress unternimmt dafür etwa 22-mal mehr Anstrengungen, als die Öffentlichkeit ihm Priorität einräumt
- Krieg/Nationale Sicherheit im Verhältnis zum öffentlichen Interesse stark überrepräsentiert
Gesamtbewertung der Ausrichtung: 23/100 – berechnet als 100 minus der mittleren absoluten Lücke über alle verfolgten Probleme.
Dies ist eine Richtungsanalyse, keine wissenschaftliche Studie. Vollständige Methodik, interaktives Diagramm und Aufschlüsselung pro Ausgabe unter thebillroom.org/priorities
Daten: Congress.gov + GovTrack | Umfrage: Gallup, AP-NORC, Pew Research Center, Reuters/Ipsos
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11 Kommentare
These things are so interesting yet so frustrating. What questions did they ask exactly? Crime and violence are largely local and state issues. The national debt and national deficit shouldn’t be grouped together. What are the exact „social issues“ people are referring to, are they things Congress can address? The areas where we need a lot of help: jobs, there’s not much they can do in the grand scheme. But poverty, 100% there is. That’s absolutely something they and they public don’t see eye to eye on. Also shocked that healthcare is so even-steven. It’s a big deal. And Congress does do many important things that aren’t personal enough to get most people excited over.
Are there any more details in the sections?
They do to much on social security/medicare?
In the republican/maga mindset and in the democrat mindset this probably means completely different things.
Also illustrated by the bars that say they don’t do enough on social issues / poverty
Almost as if they don’t represent us.
A lot of the public wants lower taxes, higher domestic spending, and the debt reduced by slightly lowering foreign aid.
Congress has taken efforts to unify the country? How?
If pro is the opposite of con, what’s the opposite of progress?
It’d be okay if they distracted the public on certain issues to get needed legislation passed that was scientifically sound, as you see in some countries. However it seems like it is distract the public inn the US so you can get reform through that actively hurts the general public.
Intuitively garbage data. Congress isn’t doing more than the public wants on unity and social security, among others (ethics/moral decline…etc).
I suspect the debt/deficit issue is not actually Congress versus voters but actually more an issue of stated preference versus revealed preference.
The survey is comparing what voters state is an important problem, and comparing to what solutions Congress is working on (doing).
The deficit is important, but voters historically don’t vote for specific measures to reduce it.
The caveat is that the measures proposed to reduce the deficit (by politicians) are likely different to the ones that I would actually vote for.
Right away I don’t believe this because no one in the real world cares about the National Debt. This is being skewed by people who only care about the national debt.
I am shocked at how insular the USA is. It seems to forget that it is part of a planet. It seems so inward looking and isolated.