Respondents also backed increased funding for infrastructure projects, another major Trump campaign pledge, 89 percent to 9 percent. | Getty Poll: Americans oppose Trump’s wall, easing regulations

American voters oppose construction of a wall on America’s southern border with Mexico, restarting work on controversial pipeline projects and loosening environmental and financial regulations, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday.

All are projects or policies backed by the nearly three-week-old administration of President Donald Trump, whose approval ratings across multiple polls have been among the worst for a newly-sworn-in commander in chief.


The news is not all bad for Trump. The Quinnipiac survey shows those polled supported the president’s promised trade agenda, responding by a margin of 60 percent to 31 percent that they support "renegotiating major trade deals with other countries, even if it means paying more for the products you buy.”

Respondents also backed increased funding for infrastructure projects, another major Trump campaign pledge, 89 percent to 9 percent.

On the president’s promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, voters opposed its construction, 59 percent to 38 percent. Opposition to the wall grew when respondents were asked how they felt about the project if U.S. tax payers were forced to pay for it. In such a scenario, those polled opposed the wall, 63 percent to 35 percent. From day one of his campaign, the president has promised that Mexico would pay for the border wall, although Mexico’s president has steadfastly insisted that his government will not.

The poll also shows opposition to a reduction of government regulations across an array of issues. Fifty percent of respondents said they support increased regulation of financial institutions, while 37 percent said such regulations damage the economy. Trump, who regularly attacked his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton for her ties to Wall Street, has doled out government jobs to multiple executives from investment bank Goldman Sachs and last week signed an executive order aimed at undoing the Dodd-Frank Act, financial regulation legislation put in place by former President Barack Obama.

By a 10-point margin (49 percent to 39 percent), voters polled opposed removing regulations on businesses and corporations. Respondents also opposed removing regulations specifically intended to combat climate change by a margin of 61 percent to 29 percent.

The Affordable Care Act, which Trump and Congressional Republicans have promised to repeal and replace, also earned some support among those polled. Fifty percent said the president should not support efforts to repeal and replace Obama’s signature healthcare legislation, while 46 percent supported Trump following through on his pledge.

Seventy-nine percent of respondents said Trump and the U.S. should defend all of its NATO allies, something the president has suggested he might not do, while just 13 percent said they should not.

The president’s belief, which is not backed up by facts, that millions of votes were cast illegally in last year’s presidential election, does not appear to have much support among those reached by Quinnipiac. Just 28 percent said that between three and five million illegal votes were cast in the presidential election, while 61 percent said they did not believe that to be the case.

Fifty percent of the voters polled said they approve of Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s appointee to the Supreme Court. Sixty-five percent said Senate Democrats should allow a vote on Gorsuch’s confirmation and 56 percent said they the Senate GOP was wrong to block a similar vote on Merrick Garland, Obama’s appointee to the court who Republicans refused to hold a hearing or vote on.

The Quinnipiac University Poll was conducted from Feb. 2-6, surveying 1,155 voters nationwide via landlines and cell phones. The margin of error was plus-or-minus 2.9 percentage points.