Trump’s popularity dips as Americans sweat cost of living, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s presidential approval rating has fallen in recent days, hitting the lowest level of his term, as more Americans oppose Trump’s cost-of-living management, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The three-day poll, which ended Sunday, showed 40 percent of Americans approve of the Republican leader’s job performance; On the other hand, in the October 15-20 Reuters/Ipsos survey, this rate was 42 percent.
Trump’s popularity has been within a percentage point or two of its current level in every Reuters/Ipsos poll since mid-May. The rate of those who said they disapproved of his performance increased from 52 percent in the survey conducted on May 16-18 to 57 percent in the last survey.
The president won last year’s election on a promise to combat the rise in inflation that hurt his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden. But Americans give Trump extremely low marks for how he manages expenses that are weighing on US households; 63% of the country disapproves of him covering living expenses; At the beginning of this month, that figure was 58%, and more than twice as many people thought they were doing a good job on costs.
The pace of inflation has risen since Trump took office in January, even as the job market weakened, prompting the nation’s central bank to cut interest rates.
PUBLIC REACTION TO THE CLOSURE REMAINED QUIET
Poll results show that many Americans have only modest concerns about the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which has furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers. 29 percent said they either didn’t care or were pleased with the closure, while 20 percent said they were angry. 50 percent said they were disappointed. Most survey respondents said the closure had little or no impact on their lives.
Trump’s Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress, while Democrats have blocked spending bills in the US Senate and vowed to hold their ground until Republicans agree to extend health insurance subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
In principle, the Democratic Party’s position appears to have significant support. About 73 percent of Americans surveyed want insurance subsidies to continue despite claims that they would increase the federal budget deficit; This differs little from the results of a survey conducted earlier in the month.
The survey, conducted online, polled 1,018 U.S. adults nationwide and had a 3 percentage point margin of error in its findings on the views of all Americans. Republicans and Democrats had a 6-point margin of error in their views.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington)
