--- title: Donald Trump Border Wall: Americans Oppose It Two to One description: Donald Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border is not very popular among voters, with 64% saying the opposed its construction canonical: https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-24T18:33:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:04:14.602Z article:section: Politics og:title: Most Americans Oppose President Trump's Border Wall og:description: Funding for the border wall may lead to a government shutdown later this week og:url: https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc0a337008082d6/6988be672dce01c2289eca51/gettyimages-652929842.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: President Trump Leads Listening Session On Health Care og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Most Americans Oppose President Trump's Border Wall twitter:description: Funding for the border wall may lead to a government shutdown later this week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc0a337008082d6/6988be672dce01c2289eca51/gettyimages-652929842.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Most Americans Oppose President Trump's Border Wall > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico has been greeted with cheers from his supporters but conservationists say it poses a threat to the local environment and ecosystems._ by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Apr 24, 2017 6:33 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 13, 2017\. Senate Democrats warned Republicans Monday that attempts to take funding away from Planned Parenthood or pay for Trump's border wall in a stopgap spending bill that must pass by late April would result in a government shutdown. Photographer: Michael Reynolds/Pool via Bloomberg U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 13, 2017\. Senate Democrats warned Republicans Monday that attempts to take funding away from Planned Parenthood or pay for Trump's border wall in a stopgap spending bill that must pass by late April would result in a government shutdown. Photographer: Michael Reynolds/Pool via BloombergBloomberg, Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Apr 24, 2017 6:33 PM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4752673/never-again-president-trump-acknowledged-the-6-million-jews-killed-in-the-holocaust/)‘s proposed border [wall](http://time.com/4749678/mick-mulvaney-budget-border-wall-funding-government-shutdown/) along the U.S.-Mexico border is more unpopular than ever — with double the number of Americans opposing its construction than those who want it built, according to a new poll. A [recent Quinnipiac poll](https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2453), which surveyed 1,062 Americans between April 12 and 18, shows 64% of American voters oppose building the wall, while 33% support it. About 3% of voters said they weren’t sure how the wall made them feel. The border wall, which is one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises, has faced more opposition since he entered the [White House](http://fortune.com/2017/04/23/trump-correspondents-dinner/), according to the poll. The recent findings come as Trump and Congress have four days to agree on a government spending bill, which the White House has pushed to include funding for the construction of the border wall. If an agreement is not reached by midnight on April 28, the government will shutdown. Democrats [have estimated](http://time.com/4745350/donald-trump-border-wall-cost-billions/) the the border wall would cost nearly $67 billion to construct, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has told Republicans not to include funds for the wall in the spending bill. The wall has been the subject of some of Trump’s recent [tweets](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/856172056932700164), where he vowed that Mexico would eventually pay for the wall’s construction. On Monday, he [touted the wall as](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/856484873133060101?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fadministration%2F330182-trump-border-wall-a-very-important-tool-in-stopping-drugs-from) “a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth.” The Wall is a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth (and many others)! If — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [April 24, 2017](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/856484873133060101?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) The Quinnipiac poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/"},"headline":"Most Americans Oppose President Trump's Border Wall","datePublished":"2017-04-24T18:33:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:04:14.602Z","description":"Funding for the border wall may lead to a government shutdown later this week","url":"https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/","keywords":["White House","Congress","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc0a337008082d6/6988be672dce01c2289eca51/gettyimages-652929842.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Calfas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc0a337008082d6/6988be672dce01c2289eca51/gettyimages-652929842.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Leads Listening Session On Health Care","caption":"President Trump Leads Listening Session On Health Care","creditText":"Bloomberg, Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/","name":"Most Americans Oppose President Trump's Border Wall"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Would a Border Wall Affect the Environment?","description":"President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico has been greeted with cheers from his supporters but conservationists say it poses a threat to the local environment and ecosystems.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/8QwmIoEW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-02-27T18:00:38.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8QwmIoEW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/","duration":"PT1M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4752746/americans-oppose-donald-trump-border-wall/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```