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voters say it is inappropriate for the federal government to own stakes in companies, a new CNBC poll found.
The result lands as the Trump administration pursues equity positions in companies, placing a public sentiment reading directly against an active policy.
The controlling number The CNBC survey produces one figure that drives the story: roughly half of voters oppose government ownership in companies.
That is a near-majority reading on a question the poll was designed to test against current policy. No prior wave of the same question appears in the reported findings, so the data cannot show movement.
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