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NEW: Trump’s Approval Skyrockets In Latest Poll

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As he rounds out his first week in office, President Donald Trump’s popularity among Americans is hitting new heights, a sign that his shock-and-awe campaign to overwhelm the federal bureaucracy with conservative reforms is being well-received.

President Trump claims to have earned a mandate from voters in the election, garnering 306 electoral votes along the way to becoming the first Republican to win the popular vote in 2o years. In the weeks that followed, a clear majority of voters signaled they approve of how he has handled his transition team and nominations for top cabinet positions.

Now, the first poll since he’s taken office shows no sign of enthusiasm abating for Trump. Atlas Intel found that 50.1% of Americans approve of the job the president is doing compared to 49.7% who disapprove. Just 0.3% have no opinion, underscoring how polarizing his second term has become for Americans.

Although his support has slipped from the 52% approval rating he enjoyed five days before taking office, President Trump still sits 6.4 points higher than where former President Joe Biden was when he assumed office in 2021.

Immigration, the economy, and competition from China continue to rank among the most salient issues for voters, all of which give Trump an edge. Fifty-one percent approve of the president’s plans for mass deportations, a growth of 3 points since the last Atlas poll.

Support for Trump’s economic agenda has risen 3 points to 50%, and his promise to slap new tariffs on China helped keep 50% of voters in his corner there, too.

The implementation of the MAGA agenda came hard and fast on President Trump’s first day as he unleashed more than 100 executive orders overhauling all aspects of the federal government. According to more than 1,800 U.S. adults who responded to the poll, there are three political home runs for Trump: forcing federal workers to return to the office (52%), mandating a policy recognizing only two genders (51%), and reclassifying federal employees so they are easier to lay off (49%).

One executive order that Trump may struggle with politically includes a lack of support for eliminating birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants: Just 38% of voters support ending the 14th Amendment protection compared to 43% who oppose doing so.

By signing so many of his orders within his first 24 hours in office, President Trump has effectively stunned his political foes into silence, neutralizing their ability to coalesce behind a particular order and fundraise or organize to oppose it. More than 10 of his orders relate to illegal immigration; with 51% of poll respondents saying they approve of mass deportations, the Republican is on solid ground.

Democrats, meanwhile, feel the ground shifting beneath their feet. On Wednesday night, the U.S. House passed the Laken Riley Act, sending new legislation to President Trump’s desk that would lower the threshold for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants charged with certain nonviolent crimes. Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA), who voted for the bill’s passage, acknowledged that Democrats are struggling to “change the narrative” around immigration in the face of Trump’s repeated victories.

“ At some point we have to try to change the narrative so that people understand that there’s a legitimate immigration process that requires us to know who’s coming into the country,” said Lynch.