Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for March 24, 2025
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March 24, 2025: Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters have very closely followed recent news stories about Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). A Napolitan News Service national survey conducted by RMG Research found that just 26% have not closely followed these news stories.
The survey also found 69% would favor sending money saved by DOGE to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Nineteen percent (19%) would be opposed.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on March 17-18, 2025. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc.
Survey questions
How closely have you followed recent news stories about the effort to cut government spending led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)?
- 32%-Very closely
- 39%-Somewhat closely
- 20%-Not very closely
- 6%-Not at all closely
- 4%-Not sure
A proposal has been made that the money saved by DOGE would be sent to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Would you favor or oppose this proposal?
- 38%-Strongly favor
- 31%-Somewhat favor
- 11%-Somewhat oppose
- 8%-Strongly oppose
- 11%-Not sure
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