WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval rating held steady over the past week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday that found 44% of respondents approved of his performance over his first month in office.
The survey found that Americans’ attitudes toward Trump were essentially unchanged as he fired tens of thousands of federal workers and upended the U.S. approach to the Ukraine-Russia war.
The poll found 50% disapproved of the job he was doing, down from 51% last week, a change well within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Public approval of Trump’s job performance so far has remained higher than it was for most of his 2017-2021 first term in office and higher than his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, enjoyed during his four-year term.
The poll of 1,029 U.S. adults, conducted online Friday through Sunday, also found that 50% of respondents supported Trump’s approach on immigration, up from 47% last week. Another 42% said they did not support his immigration policy.
Americans’ views on other top issues were relatively unchanged. Some 41% said they approved of Trump’s management of the economy and 34% said they approved of the way he was handling the cost of living.
Some 38% of poll respondents said they had a favorable view of Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who is serving as the point person for Trump’s effort to overhaul the government, while 57% said they viewed him unfavorably.
(Reporting by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington)
