President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan took a beating in new Pew Research Center findings.
Pew’s national survey of 1,501 adults, conducted from April 5-11, put Ryan’s job rating at 29 percent while Trump held steady at 39 percent overall. But the percentage of Americans saying they are “not too confident or not at all confident” in the President’s ability to work with Congress dropped to 52 percent, down from 60 percent in December.
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“In the wake of a failed effort by Trump and Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the 2010 healthcare law, the public expresses less confidence in Trump’s ability to work effectively with Congress than they did on the eve of his taking office,” Pew wrote.
It’s also worth noting that Pew also found little changes in the public’s view of both Republican and Democratic parties.
“The public remains more likely to characterize the Republican Party as ‘too extreme,’” Pew noted.
But while that applies to 52 percent of survey participants, another 40 percent said the same of the Democratic Party.
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Americans are pretty evenly split on which party can best manage the federal government, has high ethical standards and good policy ideas, according to Pew.
Not surprisingly, more say the Democrats are better-suited to handling abortion, contraception and healthcare, among other issues, than the Republican party, while citizens favor the GOP on government spending, foreign policy and immigration.
Ryan’s 29 percent approval rating, meanwhile, comes as the public’s negative views of Congress overall continue, with 62 percent expressing a very or mostly unfavorable opinion and only about one-third indicating a favorable rating.
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