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Grading Trump: Where the president stands in the eyes of Americans four months into his second term

President Donald Trump this week enjoyed one of his biggest legislative victories during his second administration.
«THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL» has PASSED the House of Representatives!» Trump touted in a social media post Thursday.
The president’s post came soon after the GOP-controlled House passed Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package by a razor-thin margin. The Republican-crafted measure is full of Trump’s campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit.
Ahead of the House vote, two surveys released earlier in the week indicated that the president’s poll numbers remained underwater.
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President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House May 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
The president stood at 46% approval and 54% disapproval in a national survey by Marquette Law School. And Trump was at 42% approval and 52% disapproval in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
And a Gallup poll released on Friday but conducted before the House vote put Trump’s approval at 43% and disapproval at 53%.
Many, but not all, of the latest national surveys place the president’s approval rating in negative territory, with a handful indicating Trump is above water.
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Trump has aggressively asserted executive authority in his second term, overturning longstanding government policy and aiming to make major cuts to the federal workforce through an avalanche of sweeping and controversial executive orders and actions, with some aimed at addressing grievances he has held since his first term.
Trump started his second administration with poll numbers in positive territory, but his poll numbers started to slide soon after his late-January inauguration.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But two issues where the president remains at or above water in some surveys are border security and immigration, which were front and center in Trump’s successful 2024 campaign to win back the White House.
Trump stands at 56% approval of border security and 50% approval of immigration in the Marquette Law School poll, which was conducted May 5-15.
But Trump’s muscular moves on border security and immigration, which have sparked controversy and legal pushback, don’t appear to be helping his overall approval ratings.
«Immigration is declining now as a salient issue,» said Daron Shaw, who serves as a member of the Fox News Decision Team and is the Republican partner on the Fox News poll.
Shaw, a politics professor and chair at the University of Texas, said «immigration and especially border security are beginning to lose steam as one of the top three issues facing the country. Republicans still rate them fairly highly, but Democrats and independents, who had kind of joined the chorus in 2024, have moved on and, in particular, moved back to the economy as a focal point.»

President Trump’s job performance numbers (Fox News )
Pointing to Trump, Shaw added that «when you have success on an issue, it tends to move to the back burner.»
Contributing to the slide over the past couple of months in Trump’s overall approval ratings was his performance on the economy and, in particular, inflation, which were pressing issues that kept former President Joe Biden’s approval ratings well below water for most of his presidency.
Trump’s blockbuster tariff announcement in early April sparked a trade war with some of the nation’s top trading partners, triggered a massive sell-off in the financial markets and increased concerns about a recession.
But the markets have rebounded, thanks in part to a truce between the U.S. and China in their tariff standoff as Trump tapped the brakes on his controversial tariff implementation.
Trump stood at 37% approval on tariffs and 34% on inflation/cost of living in the Marquette Law School poll. And he stood at 39% on the economy and 33% on cost of living in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted May 16-18.

President Donald Trump announces the imposition of tariffs on countries across the globe during a White House event April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Doug Heye, a longtime GOP strategist and former RNC and Bush administration official, pointed to last year’s election, saying, «The main reason Trump won was to lower prices. Prices haven’t lowered, and polls are reflecting that.»
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«With the exception of gas prices, there hasn’t been much of a reduction in prices,» Shaw said.
«Prices haven’t come down, and it’s not clear that people will say the absence of inflation is an economic victory. They still feel that an appreciable portion of their money is going to pay for basic things,» he added. «What Trump is realizing is that prices have to come down for him to be able to declare success.»
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House Budget chairman reveals how Republicans will pay for the Iran campaign

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House Republicans are lurching forward with a second budget reconciliation package, ending months of speculation about whether the chamber would attempt to marshal a second GOP-only megabill through Congress before November’s midterm elections.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said Wednesday he wants the measure to pay for President Donald Trump’s Iran campaign and enact anti-fraud provisions that offset the cost of the anticipated defense infusion’s large price tag.
«It’s an opportunity to solve two problems and address two challenges and advance two great causes: fund the military, provide a strong defense, win the war, achieve the objectives and do it in a way that doesn’t put our kids further in the hole,» Arrington told reporters.
«We’re all but ready to mark up a budget resolution,» Arrington continued, adding his panel is still continuing to hash out the details of the package.
Representative Jodey Arrington, R-Texas and the chairman of the House Budget Committee, center, speaks during a House Budget Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The Trump administration has floated a $200 billion request to help pay for the war in Iran but has yet to deliver a formal request. Given Democrats’ expected opposition to a defense supplemental, some House Republicans have said a second reconciliation package is the only viable vehicle to advance the measure and other Trump priorities through Congress.
«Democrats have obstructed everything,» Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital. «So, we believe, unfortunately, that reconciliation is the only mechanism to move the rest of the President’s agenda.»
Republicans have zeroed in on fraud in social services for months and view the enactment of fraud-related spending cuts as a way to offset the cost of the package.
The budget reconciliation process would allow Republicans to circumvent the Senate’s 60-vote requirement and pass a spending measure with a simple majority.
Arrington said he would be working closely with Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who also announced Wednesday that his panel would begin drafting reconciliation instructions. The South Carolina Republican floated funding increases for the military and law enforcement in addition to voter integrity measures as possible items in a second reconciliation bill.
«Let’s put it this way: The reconciliation train is leaving the station,» Graham posted on X after the two lawmakers met to discuss a second megabill Wednesday.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the Dirksen Senate Office Building July 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Though Republicans are likely to broadly support defense supplemental funding and fraud-prevention measures, a second megabill could still face major hurdles.
Republicans narrowly passed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June 2025 after months of intraparty disagreement. Under House Republicans’ razor-thin majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can afford to spare just one GOP defection in a party-line vote.
However, Arrington argued that the war in Iran would be a unifying force to get the bill done.
«I think funding our military in a time of war, if there’s no sense of urgency and accountability from members of Congress to support our commander in chief, I can’t think of one,» Arrington said. «I do think the big push is going to be supporting our sons and daughters in uniform and making sure they have what they need to be successful.»
Arrington did not shut the door on including parts of the SAVE America Act in a GOP-only megabill. However, its sweeping provisions, requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections and voter ID requirements, could fail to meet reconciliation’s stringent budget requirements.
The Trump-backed election bill has stalled in the Senate due to widespread Democratic opposition, though the upper chamber is continuing to debate the measure.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters outside his office on the 28th day of the government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington Oct. 28, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
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Johnson, who has long pushed for a second budget bill, said Wednesday he was encouraged by Graham moving forward with reconciliation.
«I’m glad to know the Senate is interested in reconciliation 2.0,» the speaker said. «I have been a broken record. We need to do that. It’s an important legislative tool.»
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Cumbre de aliados estratégicos de Putin en Pyongyang: Kim Jong Un recibió a Lukashenko para reforzar vínculos

El presidente de Bielorrusia, Alexander Lukashenko, llegó a Pyongyang en su primera visita oficial a Corea del Norte, donde fue recibido por el líder norcoreano Kim Jong Un. Lo anunció este jueves la agencia estatal KCNA.
El líder bielorruso y su par norcoreano son considerados dos de los principales socios y aliados del presidente ruso Vladimir Putin.
La ceremonia de bienvenida se celebró este miércoles en la Plaza Kim Il Sung. Kim Jong Un recibió a Lukashenko en el plaza Kim Il Sung de Pyongyang. (Foto: EFE)
El gobernante norcoreano recibió “con agrado” y dio una “cálida” bienvenida al líder bielorruso, según el reporte oficial.
Ambos países están sometidos a sanciones de potencias occidentales, mantienen estrechos vínculos con Rusia y son acusados de violaciones a los derechos humanos.
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Lukashenko inició su primera visita a Corea del Norte para mantener conversaciones que consolidarán los lazos entre dos estrechos aliados de Putin. Kim Jong Un dio la bienvenida al gobernante bielorruso Alexander Lukashenko frente a una multitud en Pyongyang. (Foto: KCNA vía Reuters).
Kim proporcionó a Moscú millones de cartuchos de munición para su guerra en Ucrania y envió tropas para ayudar a Rusia a expulsar a las fuerzas ucranianas que invadieron su región occidental de Kursk en agosto de 2024.
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Bielorrusia permitió que se utilizara su territorio como plataforma de lanzamiento para la invasión rusa en febrero de 2022. Luego, accedió a albergar misiles nucleares tácticos rusos en su país, que limita con tres países de la OTAN. Kim Jong Un y Alexander Lukashenko asistieron a una ceremonia de ofrenda floral en la Torre de la Liberación de Pyongyang, Corea del Norte, este miércoles. (Foto: KCNA vía REUTERS)
Lukashenko llegó en avión a la capital, Pyongyang, donde se lo recibió con alfombra roja y fue saludado por la ministra de Asuntos Exteriores de Kim y por decenas de niños pequeños que ondeaban las banderas de ambos países.
Lukashenko se reunió más tarde con Kim. También rindió homenaje en el Palacio del Sol de Kumsusan, un mausoleo donde se exhiben los cuerpos embalsamados de los antiguos gobernantes Kim Il Sung y Kim Jong Il, abuelo y padre del actual líder.
Tanto Corea del Norte como Bielorrusia llevan años sometidas a sanciones internacionales: la primera, principalmente por su programa de armas nucleares, y la segunda, por su historial en materia de derechos humanos y su apoyo a Putin en Ucrania. El líder de Corea del Norte y el presidente de Bielorrusia buscan reforzar su alianza en medio de tensiones con Occidente. (Foto: Presidencia de Bielorrusia/REUTERS)
No obstante, ambos mantuvieron contactos en diferentes momentos con el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump.
El presidente estadounidense se reunió con Kim en tres ocasiones entre 2018 y 2019, durante su primer mandato en la Casa Blanca, pero sus encuentros no dieron resultados sustanciales.
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Trump dijo el año pasado que “le encantaría tener otra reunión”, a lo que Kim respondió que podría suceder si Estados Unidos abandona su “absurda obsesión” por conseguir que Corea del Norte renuncie a las armas nucleares.
El año pasado, el presidente estadounidense restableció el contacto directo con Lukashenko, a quien el predecesor de Trump, Joe Biden, había tratado como a un paria. En los últimos meses, Estados Unidos empezó a suavizar las sanciones contra Bielorrusia a cambio de la liberación de presos políticos.
El viaje de Lukashenko a Corea del Norte se produce apenas seis días después de que se reuniera con el enviado de Trump, John Coale, y anunciara la liberación de otros 250 detenidos. La parte estadounidense afirmó que Lukashenko podría visitar pronto la Casa Blanca.
(Con información de AFP y Reuters)
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