盖洛普民意测验显示，在弹劾调查中，认为政府和领导层是国家最紧迫问题的美国人比例急剧上升放星期一。

34%的美国人说政府、糟糕的领导或政治家是国家最重要的问题。这一数字比9月份上升了11个百分点。这34%还表明，人们认为政府功能失调的程度高于过去政治危机期间的水平。在2013年政府关闭期间，33%的人说政府功能障碍是国家的首要问题。

调查发现，民主党人和共和党人都认为政府和糟糕的领导是该国最重要的政治问题。

上周的盖洛普民意测验显示，尽管民众认为政府和领导层是国家的首要问题找到自众议院议长南希以来，美国人对国会的总体支持率急剧上升佩洛西宣布弹劾调查开始。

尽管两党的受访者都表示对政府运作越来越担忧，但针对唐纳德·特朗普总统的弹劾调查暴露了该国政治分裂的程度。

根据民意测验，截至10月21日，将近85%的民主党人支持弹劾平均水平从五点三十八分。但是只有12.1%的共和党人这么认为。

即使在代理白宫幕僚长米克之后马尔瓦尼说——后来又撤回——特朗普拒绝向乌克兰提供军事援助，作为交换条件的一部分quo为了迫使乌克兰政府进行一项可能在政治上对总统有利的调查，很少有共和党人批评总统的行为。

马尔瓦尼民主党人对此做出了迅速回应，称代理参谋长承认特朗普利用他的办公室谋取个人政治利益，特朗普政府否认了这一说法。一些共和党人，比如佛罗里达州的众议员弗朗西斯·鲁尼，对此做出了批评性的回应马尔瓦尼s评论。

“我不明白你是怎么回到那些清晰的事情上的，”鲁尼周日告诉美国有线电视新闻网。"我会说游戏，设置，匹配."

与此同时，俄亥俄州前共和党州长约翰卡西奇之后说马尔瓦尼特朗普应该被弹劾的评论。亚当呢金辛格伊利诺伊州的共和党代表表示，他支持这项调查。

但是许多共和党人指责对总统的调查是政治迫害。众议院共和党人正试图责难众议院情报委员会主席亚当希夫他领导了弹劾听证会。

谴责投票涉及特朗普和乌克兰总统之间电话的戏剧化版本Volodymyr 席夫向国会宣读的泽兰斯基。希夫说复述是为了“戏仿”，但共和党人说了希夫对国会撒谎。

希夫也因为说他的委员会没有和告密者他对特朗普7月25日打电话给泽兰斯基提出投诉，这导致了弹劾程序。委员会一直在与告密者在此人提出投诉之前。

周一早上，特朗普敦促共和党人谴责希夫。

10月15日，众议院情报委员会主席亚当·希夫在国会大厦的新闻发布会上讲话，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在听。

PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS SAYING GOVERNMENT AND LEADERSHIP IS TOP PROBLEM RISES SHARPLY AMID IMPEACHMENT PROBE

The percentage of Americans who think the government and leadership is the country's most pressing problem has sharply increased amid the impeachment inquiry, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.

Thirty-four percent of Americans say that the government, poor leadership or politicians rank as the nation's most important problem. That figure represents an 11 percentage point increase from September. The 34 percent also indicates a level of perceived government dysfunction that is higher than that seen during past political crises. During the 2013 government shutdown, 33 percent said government dysfunction was the nation's top problem.

Both Democrats and Republicans view government and poor leadership as the country's most important political problem, the survey found.

Even as the populace says that government and leadership is the nation's top problem, a Gallup poll from last week found that Americans' overall approval of Congress has shot up since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of the impeachment inquiry.

While respondents from both parties indicated growing concern about the functioning of the government, the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has exposed the extent of the country's political division.

Nearly 85 percent of Democrats support impeachment, as of October 21, according to polling averages from FiveThirtyEight. But just 12.1 percent of Republicans do.

Even after acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said—then recanted—that Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine as part of a quid pro quo to pressure the Ukrainian government to conduct an investigation that could politically benefit the president, few Republicans criticized the president's actions.

Mulvaney's comments prompted a quick response from Democrats, who said that the acting chief of staff had admitted that Trump used his office for personal political benefit, a claim the Trump administration has denied. Some Republicans, like Representative Francis Rooney of Florida, responded critically to Mulvaney's comments.

"I don't see how you walk back something that's clear," Rooney told CNN on Sunday. "I would say game, set, match on that."

Meanwhile, former GOP Governor of Ohio John Kasich said after Mulvaney's comments that Trump should be impeached. And Adam Kinzinger, a Republican representative from Illinois, has said he supports the investigation.

But many Republicans have railed against the investigation of the president as a witch hunt. House Republicans are attempting to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has led the charge on impeachment hearings.

The censure vote concerns a dramatized version of the phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Schiff read to Congress. Schiff has said that the retelling was intended as "parody," but Republicans have said that Schiff lied to Congress.

Schiff has also been lambasted for saying that his committee had not been in contact with the whistleblower who filed the complaint about Trump's July 25 call with Zelensky, which led to the impeachment proceedings. The committee had been in contact with the whistleblower before the person filed the complaint.

On Monday morning, Trump urged Republicans to censure Schiff.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff speaks as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi listens during a news conference at the Capitol on October 15.