Overall, a 54 percent majority said that Mr. Trump was “exceeding the powers available to him,” including 16 percent of Republicans and 62 percent of independent voters.
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About half of voters — and about 60 percent of independents — said they disapproved of Mr. Trump’s handling of trade with other countries; the federal work force; the war between Russia and Ukraine; and the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a migrant in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador as part of Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown.
On foreign affairs, 68 percent of voters said the country mostly benefited from alliances and trade, while only 24 percent said the country was mostly harmed by them.
And more voters said they opposed Mr. Trump’s executive orders rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government than supported them — even as the D.E.I. issue has pushed Democrats into a defensive crouch.
Voters do not seem to believe Mr. Trump empathizes with their struggles. After spending much of last year promising to immediately lower prices, he and his allies have urged patience and tried to brace the country for short-term economic pain.
Only 44 percent of voters — including a meager 31 percent of independents — said that he “understands the problems facing people like you.”
Broad majorities said they would prefer to place limits on exactly the kinds of powers that Mr. Trump has tried to exercise:
61 percent of voters, including 33 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to impose tariffs without authorization from Congress.
54 percent, including 26 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to eliminate programs enacted by Congress.
63 percent, including 40 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to deport legal immigrants who have protested Israel.
73 percent of voters, including 56 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to send American citizens to prison in El Salvador, as Mr. Trump has threatened to do.
And as Mr. Trump’s administration has veered toward open defiance of court orders, a sky-high 76 percent of voters, and 61 percent of Republicans, said a president should not be able to ignore the Supreme Court.
Overall, 54 percent of voters said Mr. Trump’s changes to the country’s political and economic systems had “gone too far,” with 63 percent of independent voters feeling that way.
One of the most troubling numbers for Mr. Trump is the share of voters who feel they have been harmed by his policies.
Voters are more than twice as likely to say his policies have hurt them as they are to say his policies have helped them. That is a reversal from last fall, when many voters across demographic groups said his policies during his first term had helped them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html
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