Donald Trump's honeymoon period is over — if it ever existed at all.
A slew of new approval polling this week finds the president underwater with voters in terms of his overall job performance and popularity of his efforts to address individual issues, including immigration — the area where he's longest held an advantage over Democratic opponents.
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Wednesday, nearly two-thirds of Americans said uncontrolled migration was an issue of concern for them.
Yet the share of respondents who approved of Trump's actions was just 45 percent, lower than the 46 percent opposed to them.
That drop is largely thanks to the bizarre fight his administration continues to pick over Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The White House has publicly flouted a Supreme Court order requiring the US to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's retrieval.
A YouGov poll released Wednesday found that 50 percent of American adults believe that Abrego Garcia should be returned home, in line with a Supreme Court ruling ordering that the administration "facilitate" his retrieval.
The share of Americans who took the White House's position was just six percentage points higher than the share who had no opinion.
Trump's trade agenda has caused his popularity to erode as well. On economic issues, the president is seeing the same drop in support even as a shaky stock market mounts a recovery.
He's dropped 5 percentage points on the issue of Americans' approval of his handling of economic issues since January in the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Trump now hovers just a few points above where Joe Biden was at the end of December 2024.
The dynamic puts Republicans on the Hill in a tough spot — members the president will need on his side to see his legislative agenda through Congress before the midterms.
If Trump's polling trends continue, his second term may end up being an example of a presidency fueled by policy-through-executive-order, with the president having failed to achieve anything meaningful through Congress.
Democrats are counting on this dynamic to spur defections from the GOP on major votes.
Dick Durbin, a senior Senate Democrat who announced his retirement on Wednesday, told MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday: "The question is not whether Trump is sinking in the polling — and he appears to be — but whether his fate is going to be shared by other Republicans, and whether they have the courage to join Democrats, and do the right things, and stand up for the Constitution."
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