Fox News Poll: Economic pessimism abates slightly as voters reflect on the economy

Voters are feeling a spot amended astir the economy, yet wide sentiment remains negative.

Since the commencement of President Donald Trump’s 2nd term, affirmative ratings of the system person inched up from 21% successful March to 28% successful April to 31% successful the latest Fox News survey, which is astir wherever things stood astatine the extremity of the Biden medication successful January. During the erstwhile 4 years, that fig was higher than the existent standing lone once, erstwhile it deed 32% successful June 2024. For reference, astatine the extremity of the archetypal Trump administration, 33% gave economical conditions affirmative marks (December 2020), but that had been arsenic precocious arsenic 55% successful January 2020 (just earlier the pandemic).

Currently, 62% accidental their household is getting up (14%) oregon holding dependable financially (48%), up 5 points since January. The 36% who accidental they are falling down is the lowest successful 4 years.

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Still, economic sentiment is mostly gloomy: 84% are highly oregon precise acrophobic astir inflation, 68% people conditions arsenic lone just oregon poor, and 55% consciousness pessimistic astir the economy.

Democrats, Independents, women, and voters without a assemblage grade are among those astir apt to accidental the system is successful atrocious shape, portion Republicans, men, and assemblage graduates are among those astir apt to complaint it better.

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"During the Biden years, Republicans and independents were overwhelmingly antagonistic astir the economy, portion Democrats were somewhat little so," says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who helps tally the Fox News survey with Democrat Chris Anderson. "Now with Trump arsenic president, Democrats deliberation the entity is falling, portion Republicans spot rays of sunlight."

By a 21-point margin, voters reason the national fund authorities passed by the House of Representatives that the president calls the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (38% favour vs. 59% oppose). About fractional deliberation the measure would wounded their household (49%), portion 1 4th deliberation it would assistance (23%), and different 4th don’t deliberation it would marque a quality (26%).

Sixty percent consciousness they person a bully knowing of what is successful the OBBB, and portion those voters are much apt to favour the authorities than those who are unfamiliar with it, much inactive deliberation it volition wounded alternatively than assistance their household (45% vs. 34%).

Views of the authorities are highly partisan, with Republicans favoring it (73%), and Democrats (89%) and Independents (73%) opposed. Fewer than fractional of Republicans deliberation it volition assistance their household (46%).

Overall, 57% deliberation tariffs wounded the economy, the highest ever recorded successful Fox News surveys -- and treble the fig who deliberation tariffs help.

While a bulk (53%) o.k. of Trump’s handling of borderline information (46% disapprove), the president different receives antagonistic marks connected the issues: migration (46% approve, 53% disapprove), and overseas argumentation (42-57%). His worst ratings are connected the system (40-58%) and ostentation (34-64%), wherever he’s underwater by a whopping 30 points. 

The president’s wide occupation support stands astatine 46%, portion 54% disapprove. That’s up a mates ticks from 44-55% successful April. His highest approval, 49%, came successful March 2025 and April 2020. Men nether property 45 (55% approve) and White men without a assemblage grade (54% approve) are among those giving the president his champion marks. Seven successful 10 Republicans see themselves portion of the MAGA movement, and afloat 98% of them approve. 

About 90% of Democrats disapprove of the occupation Trump is doing mostly and connected circumstantial issues, with the objection of borderline security, wherever less disapprove (80%). Most Republicans are with Trump, but support drops to 68% connected ostentation and 75% connected the economy, generally. Disapproval among Independents ranges from astir fractional connected borderline information to three-quarters connected inflation.

When voters are asked however they consciousness astir Trump arsenic a person, his ratings are underwater by 10 points: 45% person a favorable sentiment and 55% an unfavorable view. For comparison, that’s astir connected par with JD Vance (44- 53%), Joe Biden (43-56%), and Marco Rubio (42-46%), and up of Elon Musk (41-58%), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (40-45%), Gavin Newsom (39-45%), and Pete Hegseth (32-45%), portion his ratings way those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (48-50%) and Kamala Harris (49-51%). Harris’s higher favorability comes from much Democrats (87%) and Independents (38%) viewing her positively compared to favorable views of Trump among Republicans (85%) and Independents (34%). 

None of those tested – not the president, not the vice president and not the erstwhile president nor the erstwhile vice president -- garnered affirmative marks from astatine slightest 50% of voters, though Harris comes closest.

As mentioned above, astir are acrophobic astir ostentation (84%), including 78% of Republicans.

By a azygous point, the aboriginal of the U.S. narrowly tops ostentation arsenic voters’ apical concern, with 85% saying they’re disquieted astir the absorption of the country. That includes 8 successful 10 Republicans, and 9 successful 10 Democrats and Independents.

Eight successful 10 voters are acrophobic astir authorities spending and Iran getting a atomic weapon, portion astir 7 successful 10 are disquieted astir antisemitism, amerciable immigration, and the usage of the U.S. subject domestically, and astir 6 successful 10 astir protests successful U.S. cities.  

More Democrats (87%) and Independents (71%) explicit interest astir the deployment of national troops successful cities successful effect to anti-ICE protests than Republicans (42%). On the different hand, much Republicans (84%) are disquieted astir amerciable migration than Independents (68%) and Democrats (49%).

There are zero issues that each 3 groups, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, hold connected arsenic priorities. The apical 3 concerns for Democrats are the aboriginal of the U.S., inflation, and U.S. troops being deployed, portion for Republicans, it’s amerciable immigration, Iran getting nukes, and authorities spending.  Among Independents, it’s the aboriginal of the country, inflation, and authorities spending.

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Conducted June 13-16, 2025, nether the absorption of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a illustration of 1,003 registered voters randomly selected from a nationalist elector file. Respondents spoke with unrecorded interviewers connected landlines (149) and cellphones (566) oregon completed the survey online aft receiving a substance (288). Results based connected the afloat illustration person a borderline of sampling mistake of ±3 percent points. Sampling mistake for results among subgroups is higher. In summation to sampling error, question wording and bid tin power results. Weights are mostly applied to age, race, education, and country variables to guarantee the demographics are typical of the registered elector population. Sources for processing value targets see the American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and elector record data.

Fox News’ Victoria Balara contributed to this report.