Trump's 2nd-term approval ratings dip despite border security gains
Four months into his second tour of duty in the White House President Donald Trump's approval ratings remain slightly underwater The president stands at approval and disapproval in a new national survey by Marquette Law School And Trump is at approval and disapproval in a Reuters Ipsos poll Majority but not all of the latest national surveys place the president's approval rating in negative territory with a handful indicating Trump is above water Trump has aggressively asserted executive authority in his second term overturning longstanding authorities initiative and aiming to make major cuts to the federal workforce through an avalanche of sweeping and controversial executive orders and actions with certain aimed at addressing grievances he has held since his first term TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATINGS ARE UNDERWATER BUT DEMOCRATS FACE RECORD-LOW POLLING NUMBERSTrump started his second administration with poll numbers in positive territory but his poll numbers started to slide soon after his late-January inauguration But two issues where the president remains at or above water in specific surveys are frontier safeguard and immigration which were front and center in Trump's fruitful campaign to win back the White House HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLINGTrump stands at approval on perimeter measure and approval on immigration in the Marquette Law School poll which was conducted May - But Trump's muscular moves on perimeter assurance and immigration which have sparked disagreement and legal pushback don't appear to be helping his overall approval ratings Immigration is declining now as a salient issue reported Daron Shaw who serves as a member of the Fox News Decision Company and is the Republican partner on the Fox News poll Shaw a politics professor and chair at the University of Texas mentioned immigration and especially edge assurance are beginning to lose steam as one of the top-three issues facing the country Republicans still rate them fairly highly but Democrats and independents who had kind of joined the chorus in have moved on and in particular moved back to the financial sector as a focal point Pointing to Trump Shaw added that when you have success on an issue it tends to move to the back burner Contributing to the slide over the past couple of months in Trump's overall approval ratings was his performance on the economic system and in particular inflation which were pressing issues that kept former President Joe Biden s approval ratings well below water for the majority of his presidency Trump's blockbuster tariff announcement in early April sparked a arrangement war with specific of the nation's top trading partners and triggered a massive sell-off in the financial markets and increased concerns about a recession But the markets have rebounded thanks in part to a truce between the U S and China in their tariff standoff as Trump tapped the brakes on his controversial tariff implementation Trump stood at approval on tariffs and on inflation cost of living in the Marquette Law School poll And he stood at on the business activity and on cost of living in the Reuters Ipsos poll which was conducted May - Doug Heye a longtime GOP strategist and former RNC and Bush administration official pointed to last year s vote saying The main reason Trump won was to lower prices Prices haven t lowered and polls are reflecting that With the exception of gas prices there hasn t been much of a reduction in prices Shaw revealed Prices haven t come down and it s not clear that people will say the absence of inflation is an economic win They still feel that an appreciable portion of their money is going to pay for basic things he added What Trump is realizing is that prices have to come down for him to be able to declare success
