Most Voters Think Trump Neglecting Economy, Inflation, Poll Shows

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.

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.

“Putting 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