48% of Ocean Staters support the deal to end the government shutdown.

63% of Rhode Island residents disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of his job as president.

The same amount, 63%, disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.

Nearly half of Rhode Islanders approve of the deal that ended the government shutdown last week, found a new poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

The longest-ever government shutdown is now over after some Senate Democrats, including New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan , made a deal to reopen the government in exchange for a reversal of federal worker layoffs and a promise of a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies .

Many national Democrats opposed the deal as it didn’t guarantee an extensio

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