2024 Election’s Top-Rated Pollster Shows Surging Approval For Trump, DOGE

Approval for President Donald Trump and his sweeping cuts to the federal government’s budget are surging in the latest polls.

Americans, by a greater margin than ever, are signaling their satisfaction with President Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency, a beacon of fiscal restraint that has shined a light on some of the bureaucracy’s most wasteful or inefficient line items and processes. The Republican’s positive image is also lifting the dead weight of Congress, one of the most unpopular institutions in polling history.

Today, 53% of Americans approve of President Trump’s job performance compared to 44% who do not. His standing is consistent with a poll last week showing a similar level of support.

However, top-rated pollster Quantus Insights reports further news that Trump’s margin of support among both Republicans and independent voters is expanding: Since early February, his support among Republicans has grown by 4 points and 3 more points among independents.

Additionally, Trump is gaining support among men and has experienced a 3-point bump since earlier this month. He remains evenly divided among women, an enviable place to be for a Republican president.

His standing is lifting voters’ favorable opinions of both DOGE (49.3%) and a generic Republican congressperson (48.3%), a sign that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is surely elated to see. Despite Democrats’ caterwauling that Elon Musk is taking a hacksaw to the federal government, voters are content with his approach.

Similarly, the House’s Republican majority is on the right side of voters eager to benefit from some of their most recent proposals, including the Lake Riley Act, now signed into law and which expands the categories expediting illegal immigrants for arrest and deportation.

Just three weeks into his administration, President Trump has signed hundreds of executive orders remaking the federal government in a myriad of ways that voters are heralding. He dismantled USAID and, along the way, highlighted some of the agency’s spending priorities that were out of line with public opinion, including sending $50 million in condoms to Africa and paying for television stations in Iraq to play episodes of Sesame Street.

At a press conference alongside Trump on Wednesday, Musk revealed that the federal government has been storing retirement records in a cavernous limestone mine where hundreds of federal employees sort through an endless array of physical paperwork. The outdated system has historically limited federal retirement applications to 10,000 per month.

Such actions are giving voters the impression that President Trump is “tough,” “energetic,” “focused,” and “effective,” according to a poll last week. Those sentiments contrast deeply with the image of former President Joe Biden as a semi-lucid 82-year-old who was frequently seen falling asleep or stumbling in public.

One of President Trump’s greatest challenges over his first year will be to fulfill his promise to lower the cost of goods, an issue on which voters are not yet giving him high marks. However, most polled say that he will need at least six months to tackle a problem that has metastasized as a result of President Biden’s four years of high-flying spending.