Open this photo in gallery Empty corridors around the Senate are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 27, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press

More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial U.S. government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, with no quick end in sight to the closure, now in its sixth day.

Forty-seven per cent of adults hold Trump responsible, while 33 per cent blame Democrats in Congress, according to the Dec. 21-25 poll, conducted mostly after the shutdown began. Seven per cent of Americans blamed congressional Republicans.

The shutdown was triggered by Trump’s demand, largely opposed by Democrats and some lawmakers from his own Republican Party, that taxpayers provide him with US$5-billion to help pay for a wall that he wants to build along the U.S.-Mexico border. Its total estimated cost is US$23-billion.

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Just 35 per cent of those surveyed in the opinion poll said they backed including money for the wall in a congressional spending bill. Only 25 per cent said they supported Trump shutting down the government over the matter.

In a statement on Thursday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said, “The president has made clear that any bill to fund the government must adequately fund border security.”

The statement made no mention of Trump’s proposed wall.

The House has approved a shutdown-ending spending measure that includes Trump’s demand for US$5-billion, but its prospects in the Senate were seen as poor.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English across the United States. It gathered responses from 2,440 adults, including 946 Democrats and 846 Republicans. It has a credibility interval, a measure of the poll’s precision, of two percentage points for the entire sample and four points for members of either political party.