Trump’s border policies are popular, but economic concerns drag down approval

President Donald Trump this week enjoyed one of his largest legislative victories during his second administration.

“The Great, the Beautiful”, the House of Representatives passed! “Trump rose in a post on social media on Thursday.

The president’s publication came shortly after passing the Republican Party’s house on Trump tax and spending on the margin package. The procedure made by Republicans is full of Trump campaign promises and second -term priorities on tax, immigration, defense, and energy unit.

Before the House of Representatives voted, two of the polls issued earlier in the week indicated that the president’s survey numbers remained underwater.

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The president reached 46 % and rejected 54 % in a national investigative study from the Market College of law. Trump was with the approval of 42 % and rejected 52 % in the Reuters/Ipsus poll.

Most, but not all, from The latest national investigative studies Put the president’s approval classification in negative lands, with a bunch indicating that Trump is above water.

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Trump strongly emphasized the executive authority during his second term, and turned the long -term government policy and aims to conduct significant discounts for the federal workforce through an ice collapse of comprehensive and controversial executive orders and executive measures, with some of them aimed at addressing the grievances that he occupied since his first term.

Trump began his second administration with a survey numbers in positive lands, but his survey numbers started to slide shortly after his inauguration in late January.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, January 23, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

But two cases remain in which the president remains in or above water in some investigative studies Border security Immigration, which was in the forefront and medium in the successful Trump campaign for the year 2024 for the White House’s decline.

Trump gets 56 % approval of border security and 50 % approval of immigration in College of Law College in Market, It was conducted 5-15 May.

But Trump’s muscle movements on border security And immigrationThat sparked the legal controversy and decline, it does not seem to help in comprehensive approval categories.

“Immigration is now declining as a prominent issue,” said Darwin Show, who is a member of the Fox News Decision Team, the Republican partner in the Fox News poll.

“Immigration, especially the border security, began to lose Steam as one of the three best issues facing the country. Republicans still reside them significantly, but Democrats and independents, who joined a kind of choir in 2024, were in particular and they moved to the economy as a central power,” said Shaw, a professor of politics and its president at the University of Texas.

President Trump’s job performance numbers (Fox News)

Referring to Trump, Shaw added that “when you have success in an issue, it tends to move to the back stove.”

The shareholder in the past two months in Trump’s comprehensive approval categories was his performance in the economy, especially inflation, which was canceling issues that kept the former president Joe Biden Approval categories are much lower than water for most of his presidency.

The Trump tariff declaration in early April sparked a trade war with some of the country’s leading partners, which led to huge sales in financial markets and increased concerns about stagnation.

But the markets have flourished, and thanks to this is a truce between the United States and China in the face of the customs tariff, as Trump took advantage of the brake to implement my controversial definition.

Trump reached 37 % on the definitions and 34 % on inflation/living cost in the Market Faculty Survey. I stood 39 % on the economy and 33 % on the cost of living in Reuters/IPSOS pollI was conducted from 16 to 18 May.

President Donald Trump announces the imposition of definitions on countries around the world during an event at the White House on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smaliowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Doug Hai, a strategic expert in the Republican Party for a long time and a former RNC and Bush administration, noted last year, saying: “The main reason Trump has won is low prices. Prices have not decreased, and opinion polls reflect this.”

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“With the exception of gas prices, there was not much low prices,” said Shu.

“Prices have not decreased, and it is not clear that people will say that the absence of inflation is an economic victory. They still feel that a tangible part of their money will pay for the basic things.” “What Trump realizes is that the prices must decrease so that he can declare success.”