Do Us Adults Support Trump's Agenda? Here's What An Ap-norc Poll Shows
Donald Trump will start implementing a far-reaching agenda when he takes office for the second time on Monday, but a poll finds that despite his claims of an "unprecedented and powerful mandate," the incoming Republican president lacks broad support for some of his top priorities.
Just over half of US adults favor eliminating taxes on earnings from tips, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, but some of his other pledges - like pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, increasing oil drilling on federal lands and imposing new tariffs - are less widely favored.
There is room for opinion to shift on many of the proposals, since a sizable share of Americans hold a neutral view. But some are more clearly unpopular. A majority of U.S. adults, for instance, oppose pardoning most people who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, indicating that one of the actions Trump has promised to undertake quickly will likely be unwelcome to many Americans.
Here's what Americans think about some of the major actions that Trump has promised - including some that could start to take effect as early as Monday.
US adults are split on mass deportations, but most support deporting immigrants convicted of violent crime