Negative Views of Government Soar Under Biden Compared to Trump

Published on April 13, 2024

The share of Americans expressing a negative view of the federal government soared in President Joe Biden’s third year in office, with a new poll showing a 10-percent drop in favorability compared to roughly the same point in former President Donald Trump’s term in the White House. Just 22 percent of U.S. adults polled in December 2023 had a favorable opinion of the federal government, according to a Pew Research poll published on April 12. That’s a 10-point drop compared to the 32 percent who held a similar view in August 2019, during President Trump’s third year in office. President Trump saw the Washington bureaucracy as corrupt, bloated, and ineffective, vowing during the 2016 campaign to “drain the swamp” and following through with a red tape-cutting agenda while in office....

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