Trump remains in the classroom? Reuters/Ipsos poll: Americans dissatisfied with the handling of the country's main issues!
Americans give President Donald Trump average ratings on his handling of the economy and efforts to shrink government and are unimpressed by some of the early battles he has picked up, such as proposals to take control of Gaza, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
The poll, conducted from Feb. 13 to 18, asked more than 4,000 American adults nationwide whether they supported a range of Trump's policies and how much of those issues would motivate them to vote in the future. The results show that Trump is putting significant effort into policies that many Americans dislike or don't consider very important.
A wave of frustration over prolonged inflation helped Trump win in November, and a majority of respondents (58%) said inflation would be a major factor in deciding their vote in the upcoming election. But only 32% approved of the job Trump was doing on inflation.
Households' views of the economy deteriorated this month to their lowest level in more than a year, according to a widely followed University of Michigan poll. Only 25% of respondents, and only half of Republicans, said they support Trump's idea that the U.S. government take control of Gaza and relocate Palestinians elsewhere.
"I thought it was a crazy idea because it's impossible," said Willard Moore, a Republican lawyer in New York City who participated in the poll, referring to the Gaza proposal. "If you did it, it would cost a lot of money, and in the end what would you have, some kind of resort? How and what good does that do to anyone?"
A significant portion of Trump voters in 2024 disagreed with some of the president's early actions and ideas. About a third of Trump voters opposed the proposal to end birthright citizenship, and one in five opposed his administration's move to end diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he is willing to step down if it would bring peace to Ukraine, even suggesting he could trade his resignation for his country's membership in NATO.
Americans consider Trump’s push to shrink government important, but are largely divided along party lines on whether they support it. Sixty percent of respondents said the Department of Government Efficiency’s so-called task force on cutting federal spending, which is led by Elon Musk, would influence their vote in the next federal election in 2026, when Democrats will seek to regain control of Congress. But only 42% of the country supports the effort, and 53% oppose it.
Trump's call to abolish the Department of Education, a move that would require congressional support, was met with widespread opposition, with 65% of respondents overall and 4 in 10 Republicans opposing it.
Musk’s stated goal of cutting costs, however, is extremely popular among hard-line Trump supporters, those in the poll who said they strongly identify with the president’s Make America Great Again, or MAGA, movement. 94 percent of MAGA followers support the Musk-led effort, and 78 percent said it would be “very motivating” or “very motivating” for them in the upcoming election. Musk’s effort has so far balanced hundreds of relatively small contracts that, he says, have saved American taxpayers $8.5 billion, a fraction of the annual federal budget.
The same proportion of core MAGA voters see increased deportations of illegal immigrants as a major motivator for voting. It’s an issue that was at the center of Trump’s presidential campaign last year. Across all respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, just over half (55%) support increased deportations, compared to 41% who oppose them. But Trump’s performance on immigration was approved by less than half (47%).
Trump also received mixed reviews on his proposed tariffs, particularly on Canada. 59% of respondents, including a quarter of Republicans, rejected the idea.
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