Asked about the CNU poll Thursday on his monthly radio show on WRVA (1140 AM) in Richmond, McAuliffe said: “I will be the first to say we need a budget. They should do their job.”

The governor said he remains ready to work with both parties and reach a compromise, noting that the budget he proposed provided for a compromise on Medicaid expansion — a two-year pilot program predicated on the guarantee of the federal funding.

He also made a pitch for his budget amendments, which include a pay raise for all state employees funded, in part, by the revenue that the state would be expected to save as a result of accepting expansion dollars.

“The House and Senate need to do their job and pass a budget,” he said.

House Republicans saw the poll’s results as an affirmation of their position.

“Virginia voters oppose Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and they want to see a compromise that avoids a government shutdown,” Matthew Moran, spokesman for House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, said in a statement.

“The clear compromise is to immediately pass a clean budget that keeps state government open and continue the debate over Medicaid expansion later.”