Dan and Liz, how do you guys feel about polling?

Pro or anti?

I'm so anti.

Anti-polling on that.

As a political reporter now for too many presidential cycles, I hate how much I still look at it and I'm obsessed with it.

It just makes no sense.

It's the definition of insanity at this point.

Well, Liz, I have bad news for you. We are going to be playing a little bit of a game today

with polling. No, I'll play. I'll play. I'll play. I just, in my heart, I'll feel grumpy.

Dan, what do you think? Yeah, I mean, I guess I see it as a data point, but one that if people take it too seriously, they're prone to looking silly later.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post reports.

I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and host of our weekly

politics roundtables. It's Friday, February 21st. I'm joined this week by Liz Goodwin,

who's a congressional reporter who covers the Senate here at the Post. Hey, Liz. Hello. And we're also

here with Dan Lamoth, who covers the U.S. military and the Pentagon. Hey, Dan. Hey, thank you.

So today we're going to be talking about a few big stories from the week in politics. We have

President Donald Trump's sharp turn against Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Then there's new Washington post-polling that unpacks just how popular and in most cases

unpopular some of Donald Trump's rapid-fire policymaking has been so far.

And finally, we have some reporting from Liz that some Republican members of Congress are

pretty quietly asking for their districts to be spared from the government spending cuts forged by

Trump and his ally Elon Musk.

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