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Topics: News, US News, Donald Trump, Politics, Money
Kit Roberts
Topics: News, US News, Donald Trump, Politics, Money
A poll has revealed just how popular Trump's economic policies have been with the American public.
In his second term in office Trump has made tariffs a flagship economic policy for his new administration, introducing eye-watering taxes on goods imported into the US.
The tariffs have varied by country, with some managing to secure deals with the US government to avoid the higher rates.
Around the world many countries are feeling the pinch of Trump's tariffs.
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The policy has also had a profound impact on the US economy, with US residents seeing prices rise as the increased cost of importing goods is passed on to the consumer.
Despite this, Trump has claimed repeatedly that prices in the US are in fact going down, but what do the general public think?
Well, the short version is that things are not looking great for the president when it comes to his economic policies.
A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research has found that just 31 percent of adults in the US approve of Trump's handling of the economy.
This is a fall from 40 percent in March, just nine months ago, and is the lowest economic approval rating that Trump has had from an AP-NORC poll in both his second and his first term so far.
When accounting for people who disapprove of the president's economic policy, the number jumps to 67 percent who do not approve of it.
The poll has come at a bad time for the president as the Republican Party begins preparations for the midterms.
But it's not just the economy where Trump's approval rating appears to have slipped.
The president's approval ratings have also fallen on issues which are key to his administration, and which he has previously polled well on.
In the new poll 43 percent of those surveyed approve of Trump's handling of crime, which is down from 53 percent just a few months ago.
It's a similar story on immigration, another flagship policy for Trump's second administration and one where in March he had an approval rating of 49 percent.
Now, after months of disturbing footage showing masked ICE officers carrying out immigration raids circulating online, and the direct impact that those raids have had on communities, public approval of Trump's immigration policy has fallen by 11 percent to just 38 percent.
However, while Trump is polling badly on specific issues, his overall approval rating has dropped less, standing at 36 percent of Americans approving of how he is handling the job of president, which was down from 42 percent.