People

• 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, and he’s yet to return to a net positive approval rating.
• At a similar point in Trump’s first term, 46% of voters approved and 50% disapproved of his job performance, leaving his net approval rating a bit worse off today than it was at the same time in 2017.

• 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.) still face relatively low awareness from the electorate, though awareness about the top House Democrat improved a bit following his pushback against Trump’s legislative agenda.
• 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 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.
• As Trump works to reach foreign trade deals, just 21% say he should make the imposition of tariffs a “top priority.” At the same time, as other issues have stolen the spotlight, 44% think he is making tariffs a top priority, a relatively low number compared with most other weeks of his presidency.

• The president receives his best ratings on national security (51%) and immigration (50%).
• More voters than not disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy, while he gets his worst marks on health care, abortion and LGBTQ rights.

• Republicans hold sizable advantages over Democrats on trust to handle just two issues: immigration and national security.
• Voters are significantly more likely to trust Democrats to handle LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, Medicare and Social Security and health care.
• Voters are closely divided over whom they trust to handle energy, taxes, the economy, trade, foreign policy and the national debt.

News

• Voters are 16 points more likely to say they’ve heard something negative about Trump than positive, (48% to 32%), up from a second-term low of 24 points reached last month.
• Few voters heard much about Johnson (55%) or Thune (70%) even as the two reached the finish line with their 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, the inverse has been true more often than not since late March.

• Voters are 16 points more likely to hear something negative than positive about the economy, up from a 32-point buzz deficit reached at the height of Trump’s trade war in 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 3 in 4 saying they'd heard something recently about it in our latest survey, the most since early February.

• Four in 5 voters said they had seen, read or heard at least something about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act following the Senate’s passage last week. That level of awareness is similar to the share who said the same about the outcome of the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, which ended in “not guilty” verdicts on the most serious charges he faced of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
• Voters were twice as likely to say they’d heard a lot about the three-day wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Italy than the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling that struck down the state's 1849 abortion ban.