A new poll sponsored by the National Journal shows a 41 percent plurality of Americans hope that Congress sticks to the debt ceiling deal they reached last summer, which is set to automatically cut both domestic programs and defense spending by $600 billion. Both sets of reductions could have been avoided through a deal from the specially created Congressional Supercommittee on debt, which failed to reach an accord in late 2011.
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