Almost two thirds of Americans disapprove of Trump’s rates, with inflation a broad concern: survey

Seven out of 10 Americans think that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on international trade will increase the inflation of the United States, overcoming the hopes that they drive manufacturing use and feeding a 64% disapproval rate of how it handles the problem.

Even almost half of the Republicans, 47% in the ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey published on Friday, said they believe that tariffs will negatively affect inflation. That jumps to 75% among independents, a swing group in national politics.

Tariffs are certainly a moving goal. The administration has stopped some (although not those of China) waiting for negotiations.

And there is a positive perceived: 59% said they believe that tariffs will have a positive impact on the creation of manufacturing jobs in the United States, including 90% of Republicans and 60% of independents. That, along with reducing prices, were some of Trump’s key campaign promises.

But, given the current state of the game, the scale is negative again in a third factor: 56% in this survey, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates With field work by IpsosThink about the management of tariffs by Trump will negatively affect the economic leadership of the United States in the world compared to 42% who see a positive impact.

See PDF for complete results.

The Democrats, meanwhile, strongly oppose tariffs. Nine in 10 think they will negatively affect inflation (90%) and the economic leadership of the United States in the world (89%) equally, and an almost unanimous 96%of 96%disapprove of their handling Trump’s handling. Democrats are not sold in rates that create manufacturing jobs, either: 68% think they will hurt, they will not help.

Given the fears of inflation, Trump’s general qualification to handle rates is a wide 30 percentage points under water, 34%-64%. That is much worse than its 7 -point deficit in approval to handle immigration (as reported here), which shows that the public feeling is especially thorny when economic well -being is at stake.

In fact, in their own party, 25% of Republicans disapprove of Trump’s rates, as well as 30% of conservatives. And the disapproval reaches 48% among the white men not educated in the university and 47% of rural Americans, two of Trump’s main support groups.

Methodology: This ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey was held online through the probability Ipsos KnowledgePanel® from April 18 to 22, 2025, in English and Spanish, between a random national sample of 2,464 adults. Party divisions are 30%-30%-29%, indicators of democrats-republican.

The results have an error margin of 2 percentage points, including the design effect. Error margins are larger for subgroups. The sampling error is not the only source of differences in surveys.

The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associateswith sampling and collection of data by Ipsos. See the details about the ABC news survey methodology here.