NIN Web Desk : Dr subhrojyoti chattopadhyay ; President Donald Trump, with the stroke of a pen, signed an executive order this week to begin the longstanding conservative goal of demolishing the Department of Education. Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making,” Trump said at a White House signing ceremony. “It’s about time.” Trump has been on a tear since returning to the White House two months ago, flexing his political muscles to expand presidential powers as he’s upended longstanding government policy and made major cuts to the federal workforce through a flurry of executive orders and actions. Trump has signed close to 100 executive orders since his inauguration, according to a count from Media, which far surpasses the rate of any recent presidential predecessors during their opening weeks in office.
The president touts that “a lot of great things are happening” and that “things are doing very well,” but it’s clear that Americans are divided on the job Trump’s doing so far in his second tour of duty in the White House. Trump’s approval rating stood at 49% in the latest Media national survey, with 51% giving the president a thumbs down in the survey, which was conducted March 14-17.
Trump’s approval rating slightly underwater, and it’s also the latest to indicate a massive partisan divide over the president and his agenda. Ninety-two percent of Republican respondents approved of the president’s performance, while an equal percentage of Democrats gave Trump a big thumbs down. More than six-in-ten independents said they disapproved of the job Trump is doing.
The president’s 49% overall approval rating matches the all-time high for Trump in Media polling, which he last reached in April 2020, near the end of his first term in office. And that’s six points higher than where he stood at this point in his first administration (43% approval in March 2017). Trump’s poll numbers were almost entirely in negative territory in most surveys for the entirety of his first term in office.
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