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Updated on Jun 2, 2025
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Tracking Public Opinion of Trump's Washington

Trump’s approval rating declines

Morning Consult is tracking what voters across the country think about how President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are governing the United States ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Each week, we’ll update this page with fresh and timely data on all of the major questions facing Washington, including views about the people in charge, the issues dominating the conversation and what is actually breaking through to the electorate.

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Key Takeaways

  • Trump’s approval rating ticks down: The president’s approval rating stands at 46%, down from 48% over the past two weeks. A slim majority (51%) disapprove of his job performance, which is unchanged from last week.

  • Republicans make gains on the economy: Though voters are only 2 percentage points more likely to trust Republicans in Congress than their Democratic counterparts to handle the economy (45% to 43%), it’s the GOP’s largest advantage on the question since late March.

  • Trump maintains improved trade cred: Similarly, views on Trump’s handling of trade remain above water (47% approval vs. 45% disapproval) for the second week in a row following weeks of net negative ratings that also date back to March.

  • Harvard fight breaks through: More than a third of voters (36%) said they’ve heard “a lot” about Trump administration's attempted ban on Harvard University’s enrollment of international students, making it the most penetrative of 11 news items tested over the weekend, eclipsing the president’s pardons of reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley and Elon Musk’s exit from the administration.

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People

Trump's approval ratings

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters. Figures may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

  • Trump began his second term by matching a record-high 52% approval from March 2017, but voters soured on his job performance during the most disruptive part of his trade war.
  • At a similar point in Trump’s first term, 44% of voters approved and 51% disapproved of his job performance, leaving his net approval rating today higher than it was then.

Politicians' popularity

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters. Net favorability is the share of voters with favorable views minus the share with unfavorable views.

  • Trump’s favorability ratings remain underwater, which has been the case more often than not since he took office.
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) face low awareness from the electorate.
  • Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the most high-profile congressional leader, is also the most unpopular one, though he’s maintained good numbers at home in New York.

Policy

Voters’ priorities for the Trump administration

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters.

  • Voters are most likely to want Trump to focus on lowering prices for goods and services, and specifically health care affordability, following a campaign that was dominated by voters’ concerns about inflation.
  • Just over a third of voters (37%) said the federal government should make the deportation of undocumented immigrants a top priority, compared with 57% who think it is.

Trump’s performance on the issues

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters.

  • The president receives his best ratings on immigration (53%) and national security (53%). 
  • Nearly half of voters (47%) disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy, the highest disapproval rating of any specific issue.

Congressional trust on the issues

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters. Trust gap is the share of voters who trust congressional Republicans minus the share who trust congressional Democrats.

  • Republicans hold advantages over Democrats on trust to handle immigration and national security.
  • Voters are more likely to trust Democrats to handle health care, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion and the major U.S. entitlement programs. 
  • Voters are closely divided over whom they trust to handle the economy, energy, the national debt, taxes, trade and foreign policy.

News

The buzz on the politicians

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters. Net buzz is the share of voters who heard something positive minus the share who heard something negative.

  • Voters are 17 points more likely to say they’ve heard something negative about Trump than positive, an improvement from a second-term low reached in April.
  • Few voters say they’ve heard much about Johnson or Thune as the two work with Trump to pass the party’s signature legislative package. 
  • Though Republicans enjoyed a narrow buzz advantage over Democrats between the November elections and the opening months of the second Trump presidency, that hasn’t been the case since late March.

The buzz on the issues

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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters. Net buzz is the share of voters who heard something positive minus the share who heard something negative.

  • Voters are 18 points more likely to hear something negative than positive about the economy, a 14-point improvement since late April. 
  • As was the case throughout much of the 2024 campaign, immigration has been one of the most salient issues voters are hearing about in the news, with roughly 7 in 10 saying they'd heard something recently about it.

What voters are hearing about

Shares of voters who have seen, read or heard the following about …
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Latest survey conducted May 30-June 2, 2025, among registered U.S. voters. Figures may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

  • Just 27% of voters say they’ve heard a lot about the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would make changes to the tax system, increase funding for defense spending and border security, and decrease funding for Medicaid and the development of renewable energy sources.
  • Less than half (42%) said they’ve heard something about the release of a new political reporting book called “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” up from 36% in May. 

Source of this data

Methodology

Morning Consult’s latest reported results reflect data gathered May 30-June 2, 2025, among a nationally representative sample of 2,205 registered U.S. voters, with a margin of error of +/-2 percentage points. For more information on our methodology, see here.

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Eli Yokley
U.S. Politics Analyst

Eli Yokley is Morning Consult’s U.S. politics analyst. Eli joined Morning Consult in 2016 from Roll Call, where he reported on House and Senate campaigns after five years of covering state-level politics in the Show Me State while studying at the University of Missouri in Columbia, including contributions to The New York Times, Politico and The Daily Beast. Follow him on Twitter @eyokley. Interested in connecting with Eli to discuss his analysis or for a media engagement or speaking opportunity? Email [email protected].

Cameron Easley
Head of U.S. Political Analysis

Cameron Easley is Morning Consult’s head of U.S. Political Analysis. He has led Morning Consult's coverage of U.S. politics and elections since 2016, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, Axios, FiveThirtyEight and on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Cameron joined Morning Consult from Roll Call, where he was managing editor. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Follow him on Twitter @cameron_easley. Interested in connecting with Cameron to discuss his analysis or for a media engagement or speaking opportunity? Email [email protected].