<p>A majority of Americans give positive marks to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> for the job he is doing in the first few weeks of his second term, according to a new poll.</p>
<p>Fifty-three percent of respondents to a CBS News and YouGov <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-approval-opinion-poll-2025-2-9/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> conducted last week said they approve of Trump&#8217;s efforts so far. Another 47% said they disapprove.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a better approval number than he ever reached during his first term in the White House,&#8221; said &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; moderator Margaret Brennan.</p>
<p>Anthony Salvanto, the executive director of elections and surveys for CBS News, offered a succinct explanation for why so many Americans are satisfied with Trump 2.0.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🔥 CBS POLL: President Trump&#39;s approval rating is better than it has ever been.</p>
<p>&quot;He&#39;s doing, in the eyes of the public, what he said he would do &#8230; 70% of people say he&#39;s doing what he promised.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/O7Ze6lltJU">pic.twitter.com/O7Ze6lltJU</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing, in the eyes of the public, what he said he would do in the campaign. There is political value in that,&#8221; Salvanto said on &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, the poll showed that 70% of respondents said Trump is living up to his campaign promises. Only 30% said  Trump is breaking from his promises.</p>
<p>Words used to describe Trump during the campaign, such as &#8220;tough&#8221; and &#8220;energetic,&#8221; are still being applied to him today by the majority of Americans, the survey found.</p>
<p>&#8220;As people take a look in these first few weeks, there&#8217;s been a lot of activity, they&#8217;re getting that general sense of governance, and that&#8217;s being reflected in these early numbers,&#8221; Salvanto said.</p>
<p>Pollsters, who conducted their survey from Wednesday through Friday, also asked respondents about specific policies in the second Trump&#8217;s administration. The findings were mixed.</p>
<p>For instance, 59% of Americans said they approve of the Trump administration&#8217;s program to deport immigrants illegally in the U.S. Forty-one percent said they disapprove.</p>
<p>Sixty-four percent of Americans said they approved of the Trump administration sending U.S. troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Another 36% said they disapprove.</p>
<p>Forty-eight percent of respondents said they favor the use of large detention centers while determining who should be departed. Fifty-two percent said they oppose it.</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict received the support of 54% of Americans, largely driven by Republicans. Another 46% said they disapprove.</p>
<p>Just 13% of respondents said they viewed Trump&#8217;s proposal for the U.S. taking over Gaza to be a &#8220;good idea.&#8221; Another 47% said it was a bad idea. The rest said they were not sure or it depends.</p>
<p>On the economic front, 66% of respondents said Trump is not focused enough on lowering prices, 31% said the &#8220;right amount&#8221;,&#8221; while 3% said &#8220;too much.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. tariffs on goods from China received majority support while penalties on goods from Mexico, Europe, and Canada were below 50% favorability.</p>
<p>The poll found Americans to be largely split on how much influence they think Elon Musk and his DOGE task force should have over U.S. government agencies and their spending.</p>
<p>CBS News said the poll had a &#8220;nationally representative&#8221; sample of 2,175 adults and the margin of error was plus-or-minus 2.5 percentage points.</p>

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