President Trump threatens tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba
President Trump warned Cuba to reach a deal with the United States after signing an executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil.
- According to the latest Pew Research Center poll, President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 37%.
- Among Republicans, approval for the president’s policies has fallen from 67% in 2025 to 56% now.
- A majority of Republicans (61%) believe Republicans are under no obligation to support Trump if they disagree with him.
Republicans are starting to significantly lose trust in President Donald Trump, a new poll finds. President Trump will travel around the country touting the American people’s economic performance while dealing with growing social unrest over a crackdown on illegal immigration.
A new Pew Research Center poll released on January 29 shows the populist-fueled president’s approval rating hovers around 37%, down about 3 percentage points from the fall.
Polls show growing dissatisfaction with President Trump’s plan, with only 27% of American adults saying they support his policy prescriptions. That’s down from 35% when he returned to the White House a little more than a year ago.
The Pew survey found that by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans also say the administration’s actions have made things worse.
More troubling for the president than the economic downturn itself is where it’s coming from, which researchers say is due solely to growing dissatisfaction among President Trump’s loyal base.
For example, about 67% of Republicans said they would support all or most of the ideas of Mr. Trump, who gutted the Democrats in the last presidential election and returned to power in 2025. But cracks are beginning to appear in that pillar, with about 56% of Republican voters now saying the same thing.
For the past two months, President Trump has left Washington to visit communities, slamming critics and proclaiming that prosperity is returning, in the face of unfulfilled many of his populist promises.
Many Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, see an opening in the 2026 midterm elections and have criticized Trump for not improving affordability at the pace he promised.
Poll finds most Republican voters don’t want to get along with Congress
At a Cabinet meeting on January 29, the president reiterated some of these economic pains and said he wants to make it easier for Americans to buy homes.
The administration has recently rolled out several proposals and actions aimed at addressing affordability, including President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order banning Wall Street investors from purchasing single-family homes.
“We’re going to make it easier to buy,” Trump said. “We’re going to lower interest rates. But I want to protect people who, for the first time in their lives, feel good about themselves. They feel like, you know, wealthy people.”
But Pew said that hasn’t stopped the outpouring of support from the Republican base, showing that Trump’s approval rating among Republicans is about 73%, down from September.
One area where that dissatisfaction may be manifesting itself is among conservative lawmakers looking to their political future beyond the Trump era.
The past year has also seen more congressional Republicans push back against the president, including the release of controversial files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and the shooting deaths of two Americans by immigration officials in Minnesota.
The poll noted that about 38% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say Trump’s party allies in Congress have a “duty to support” his ideas.
But 61% oppose it, with some arguing that Republicans are under no obligation to support it if they don’t, an increase from 55% last year when the Pew poll found that number.
Contributor: Joey Garrison
