President Donald Trump’s approval rating has declined again in a new poll as some of his supporters sour on his performance.
Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” and other policies, don’t seem all that pretty to Americans, whose views of the president have grown more negative in the almost seven months he’s been in office.
According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted between August 4 and 10, just 38 percent of respondents approve of the way Trump is handling his job, while 60 percent disapprove.
A majority of Americans, 53 percent, say Trump is making the federal government work worse, while just 27 percent say he’s making it work better.
In early July, Trump signed the massive bill that extended his 2017 tax cuts and increased border security spending while cutting social programs including Medicaid and SNAP.
The new poll shows 46 percent of Americans disapprove of the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” while 32 percent approve.
An even larger group of respondents, 61 percent, disapprove of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs.
Trump announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on all imported goods on April 2, but bigger reciprocal tariffs on some countries just took effect this month.
White House Assistant Press Secretary Liz Huston told The Independent, “President Trump has delivered on his promises to the American people in record time, including defeating [former President] Joe Biden’s inflation crisis, securing the border, and delivering the largest middle class tax cut in history.
“President Trump is putting Americans first when negotiating peace and trade deals, and under his leadership, America is the hottest country in the world.”
Even Trump’s own party has a less glowing view of him than when he first took office.
In the new poll, 55 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said Trump is making the federal government work better, which is down from the 76 percent of Republicans who expected he would make it work better in the weeks after he took office.
Trump’s approval rating among people who identify as strong Republicans sits at 93 percent, which is only slightly down from 96 percent at the start of his term.
When looking at another key issue, the Trump administration’s handling of the files related to the government’s investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Republicans are divided.
The new poll finds 53 percent of Republicans disapprove of the administration’s handling of the so-called Epstein files, while 44 percent approve.
In general, 70 percent of Americans disapprove of the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, and 63 percent have little to no trust in what the administration is saying about the information related to the wealthy financier who socialized with the president decades ago.
