The majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is doing well under President Donald Trump’s leadership, per a survey released Monday.
A slight majority of voters — 51% — said they believe the economy is “strong,” according to a Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)/Harris poll conducted in May. This marked the first time Harvard CAPS/Harris found that over half of Americans felt this way since July 2021.
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The same poll also found that Trump received a 47% approval rating, while his disapproval rating was at a nearly identical 48%.
The Harvard survey comes after inflation eased more than expected in April, with the consumer price index (CPI) — a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods — increasing by 0.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on May 13.
Similarly, job growth beat expectations in the same month, with the U.S. economy adding 177,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in April, according to BLS data released May 2.
The poll’s results also paint a different picture from the results of multiple April surveys, conducted before the BLS released its latest data, that found voters disapproved mainly of Trump’s economic policies at the time.
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Since he returned to the Oval Office in January, Trump has pledged to improve the economy, vowing to unleash “economic prosperity” through “fair trade, historic tax cuts, deregulation,” and to create a “manufacturing revival that will cement America’s new Golden Age for decades to come.”
The Harvard CAPS/Harris survey was conducted online within the U.S. on May 14 to 15, among 1,903 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX.
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