WASHINGTON (Reuters)-US President Donald Trump’s public approval rate has fallen to his lowest level since his return to the White House, as Americans showed signs of caution about their efforts to expand their power, showed a research Reuters/Ipses closed on Monday (21).
About 42% of interviewees in the six -day survey approved Trump’s performance as president, below 43% of a Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted three weeks before and also 47% in the hours following his inauguration on January 20.
Trump’s beginning of the term of office left his political opponents astonished, as he signed dozens of decrees expanding his influence on government departments and private institutions such as universities and law firms.
Although Trump’s approval rate remains louder than the rates seen during most of its democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, the results of the Reuters/Ipsos research suggest that many Americans are uncomfortable with their measures to punish universities that he considers very progressive and to settle as President of the Kennedy Center, an important cultural and theater institution in Washington.
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In addition, 57% – including a third of Republicans – disagreed with the statement that “there is no problem with a US president to retain universities financing if the president does not agree to how the university is administered.”
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Trump, who has argued that universities are unable to combat campus anti -Semitism, has froze large sums of federal money budgeted at US universities, including more than $ 2 billion for Harvard University alone.
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A similar portion of the interviewees, 66%, said he did not think the president should control the major cultural institutions such as national museums and theaters. Last month, Trump ordered the Smithsonian Institution, the vast complex of museums and research, which is the main space for the display of US history and culture, to remove “improper” ideology.
In all research issues, from inflation and immigration to taxation and rule of law, the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that Americans who disapproved of Trump’s performance overcrowded those who approved it. Regarding immigration, its strongest support area, 45% of respondents approved Trump’s performance, but 46% disapproved.
The research had an error margin of about 2 percentage points.
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For 59% of respondents, including a third of Republicans, the United States were losing credibility in the global scenario.
Three bedrooms of the interviewees said Trump should not compete for a third term – a path Trump said he would like to follow, although the US Constitution prevents him from doing so. Most republicans interviewed, 53%, said Trump should not seek a third term.
