A significant majority of Americans seem thoroughly unimpressed by President Donald Trump’s handling of the American economy, according to a new CBS News poll released late Sunday.
The new poll shows that just 36% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s approach to the economy, while 64% disapprove. Moreover, 77% of respondents said the president is not devoting enough time to handling inflation and the economy, 18% said he was spending an adequate amount of time and only 5% said he was spending too much time on the issues, according to the poll. (RELATED: Republicans Pour Cold Water On Trump’s $2,000 Check Proposal)
Sixty-five percent of the poll’s participants agreed that the president’s policies are causing grocery prices to go up while only 14% said Trump’s agenda is causing them to go down. Fifty-eight percent of respondents thought prices had been rising in the last few weeks, while 31% said prices were staying the same and 11% said they thought they were going down, the survey found.
Only 32% of American adults said the current state of the U.S. economy is “good,” according to the poll.
Of those surveyed, 32% expressed approval over Trump’s approach to tackling inflation, and 68% expressed disapproval.
US President Donald Trump raises a fist as he walks from Marine One to the White House after landing on the South Lawn in Washington, DC, on November 22, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House after taking an aerial tour of The Courses at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)
“Putting [former President] Joe Biden’s economic disaster behind us has been the top priority for President Trump since Day One, and the Administration continues to push economic policies that are cooling inflation and raising real wages,” White House Spokesman Kush Desai told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “These same policies created a historic economy with robust job, wage, and investment growth in President Trump’s first term, and Americans can rest assured that President Trump is focused on ensuring that the best is yet to come in his second term.”
Trump claimed during a Nov. 17 speech at the McDonald’s Impact Summit that Biden’s administration “started the affordability crisis,” also claiming that his own administration “is ending it.”
“In the past six months, the price of breakfast items has fallen 14%, bread prices are down, dairy prices are down; the price of eggs has declined 86% since March,” the president stated.
However, Vice President JD Vance conceded during a Breitbart News event on Thursday that he believes the administration still has “a lot of work to do” on the economy, CNN reported.
“We get it and we hear you, and we know that there’s a lot of work to do,” Vance said, per CNN. “As much progress as we’ve made, it’s going to take a little time for Americans to feel that.”
Still, the U.S. economy added 119,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in September, way above expectations, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Nov. 20. The BLS also reported that the U.S. unemployment rate was little changed the same month at 4.4%.
Additionally, a variety of Thanksgiving meal grocery staples are projected to cost slightly less in 2025 than they did the year prior, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation survey released on Nov. 19.
The CBS News/YouGov poll surveyed 2,489 adults across the U.S. from Nov. 19 to 21. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
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