In a national survey by USA TODAY and the Pew Research Center, 43 percent said that the prisoner exchange was the wrong thing to do, compared with 34 percent who said that it was the right decision and 23 percent who were unsure.

Republicans were overwhelmingly against the swap, with 71 percent answering that it was not the right move. Among Democrats, only 24 percent shared these negative opinions toward the deal. Independent voters fell in the middle, with 44 percent of those polled saying that the swap was the wrong thing to do.

Despite the division over the swap, 56 percent of those polled said that the U.S. is responsible for getting American soldiers back home, regardless of circumstances. Democrats made up a majority of those surveyed who share the idea that American soldiers should be brought home no matter what, with 75 percent agreeing with the stance. Among Republicans, 48 percent felt that the U.S. was not obligated to bring Bergdahl home because he may have left his post.

These results come shortly after President Barack Obama announced May 31 in the Rose Garden that the U.S. was swapping five Taliban prisoners from Guantánamo Bay in Cuba for America’s last prisoner of war in Afghanistan.

Pew Research Center and USA TODAY conducted the poll between June 5-8 among 1,004 adults. The poll has a sampling error of about 3.6 percentage points.

A CBS News poll on Tuesday reported that 45 percent of Americans disapproved of the Bergdahl deal, compared with 37 percent who approved of it.

Response to the deal was similarly divided along partisan lines, with most Republicans disapproving and most Democrats approving. Fifty-six percent of Americans say the Obama administration gave up too much in the prisoner exchange.

Seventy-two percent of Americans also said that the president should have notified Congress before the prisoner exchange. The White House has come under fire from a bipartisan group of lawmakers for not informing Congress 30 days in advance about the exchange, a stipulation under the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.

The CBS News poll was conducted June 8-9 with 1,013 adults on landlines and cellphones. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus percentage points.