Voters widely expect President-elect Donald Trump to focus on lowering prices once he takes office, but have mixed expectations about whether he will be successful, a new poll finds. At the same time, multiple polls have shown that the public has been lukewarm about Trump’s choices for key roles in his administration.
A Fox News poll of registered voters conducted December 6-9 found that 60% said it was very important for President Trump to focus on lowering food and gas prices. It turns out that the economy remains the country’s most pressing problem. Lowering prices was by far the top priority of the 10 items answered in the poll, followed by lower taxes for individual taxpayers (47% said this was very important), strengthening national defense (42%) and illegal deporting immigrants currently in the U.S. (38%), ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (29%), reducing the size of the federal government (29%), and reducing U.S. aid to Ukraine. reduction (26%). The remaining three are considered very important by less than 20% of voters.
However, voters are nearly evenly divided on whether food and gas prices will rise (41%) or fall (39%) under the new Trump administration, with 19% expecting them to remain about the same. Most people expect the southern border to become safer (56%, with 14% saying it will become less safe) and stricter restrictions on abortion (52%, with 13% saying it will decrease). answered. And more people said they expected the national debt (up 48%, down 31%) and taxes in their home country (increase 37%, down 30%) to increase rather than decrease under the Trump administration.
According to a Fox poll, voters are split 47% approve and 50% disapprove of the way President Trump chooses his Cabinet, and the Senate must approve several top picks for Cabinet and other high-level positions. Less than half of respondents said they wanted to vote. There was no majority opposition to any of the options tested. Those in favor of approval include Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (48% in favor, 43% opposed), Secretary of State Marco Rubio (46% in favor, 35% opposed), and Pam Bondi in opposition. exceeds the percentage of 37% to 32% for Attorney General and Scott Bessent (32% to 27%) for Treasury Secretary. Negative sentiment outweighs positive sentiment for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (40% disapprove, 31% approve) and FBI Director Kash Patel (38% disapprove, 34% approve).
The results were similar in an AP-NORC poll of adults, with President Trump’s support for Kennedy (42% disapproval, 30% approval), Tulsi Gabbard (29% disapproval, 21% approval), and Hegseth ( (36% disapproved), there were more disapprovers than supporters. , 17% approve of Rubio’s role in the administration), and mixed opinions about Rubio (31% approve, 31% disapprove). A significant number of stocks had no opinion on each of these choices, with more than 28% saying they were neutral or unsure.
Today’s Monmouth University poll also found that public opinion is divided over whether President Trump should suspend some laws and constitutional provisions to go after his political opponents.
