Poll: Public Backs Senate Plan to Slash Tax Cut

Bush Support Strong, but U.N. Role in Postwar Iraq Wanted

The survey found that 65 percent of the public favors the Senate-passed plan to reduce Bush's $726 billion tax cut by more than half in order to pay for the war, shore up Social Security and reduce the deficit-a view shared equally by Republicans as well as by Democrats and political independents.

Nearly three in 10 would eliminate the tax cut entirely, the poll found.