Washington (AP) – Americans’ confidence in President Donald Trump to strengthen the American economy seems to hesitate, with a new poll showing that many people fear that the country will be led in a recession And that the president’s wide random random randoms will lead to an increase in prices.
About half of American adults say that Trump’s trade policies will increase prices “a lot” and that 3 others out of 10 think that prices could increase “somewhat”, according to the survey of The Associated Press-Noc Center for Public Affairs Research.
About half of Americans are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the possibility that the US economy is starting a recession in the coming months.
Although skepticism about prices increases modestly, this does not mean that the public automatically rejects Trump or his approach to trade. However, distrust could cause problems with a president who Promised voters that he could quickly repair inflation.
Trump shows a vulnerability on the economy
Three months after its second term, Trump management of the economy and prices presents itself as potential weakness. About 4 out of 10 Americans approve how the republican president manages the economy and commercial negotiations. It is almost in accordance with An AP-Noc survey carried out in March.
Matthew Wood, 41, said he was waiting to see how the prices are going, but he feels anxious.
“I am not a big fan of this one, especially given China and back and forth with adjustments to both ends,” said Wood, who lives in West Liberty, in Kentucky, and is unemployed. “Personally, that has not yet affected me. But, in general, I do not know how it will end, in particular with the major countries involved.”
However, Wood said he had changed his registration from the Republican to independent, after being disabled by Trump’s attitude and deference to billionaire Elon Musk. Wood voted for Trump last year and said he was ready to give the president until the end of the year to provide positive results on prices.
About half of the American adults, 52%, are against the prices imposing on all the goods brought to the United States of other countries. It is a bit of JanuaryWhen a survey revealed that 46% were against prices. Driving this small quarter work seems largely to be adults under the age of 30 who had no opinion on the prices.
Trump supporter Janice Manis, 63, said that Trump’s only criticism on prices is that he put A partial break of 90 days For commercial negotiations with other countries.
“In fact, I think he shouldn’t have suspended him,” said Manis, the Del Rio retirement Sheriff, Texas. “Because now China is trying to manipulate all these other countries to go against us, while if it had left all the prices at stake, these countries would be hard. But, oh, well, things happen.”
Skepticism remains on Trump’s tariff approach
Not quite 100 days after Trump’s second term in the White House, the country of the country are preparing for possible disturbances in the way they spend, work and live. The American economy remains solid at the moment with moderating inflation and A healthy unemployment rate of 4.2%But measures such as consumer confidence has dropped sharply.
Trump used executive actions to reshape the global economy. He imposed hundreds of billions of dollars a year in new import taxes – although partially suspended some of them – launching a large -scale trade war against China and undertaking to conclude agreements with a dozen other countries which are temporarily confronted with 10%tariffs. The financial markets are swinging with each twist and turn away from Trump’s pricing statements.
Many Americans are not convinced that it is the right approach. About 6 out of 10 say that Trump has “gone too far” when it comes to imposing new prices, according to the survey.
The shares are down this year, while the costs of interest in the US government bonds have increased in a manner that could make reimbursement of mortgages, car loans and student debt. The CEOs remove their orientations on profits for investors and are looking for exemptions from Trump prices, which have struck allies such as Canada and even unhabitary islands.
Trump seemed to recognize the trail of the prices by emphasizing this week the possibility of an agreement with China. The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, had also declared in a speech behind closedy that The situation with China is not “sustainable”.
Widespread concern concerning the increase in prices of the grocery store
About 6 out of 10 American adults are “extremely” or “very” concerned with the cost of the grocery store in the coming months, while around half are very concerned about the cost of big purchases, such as a car, a mobile phone or a device. Less than half are very concerned about their ability to buy the goods they want – a sign of the resilience of the economy so far.
Retirement savings are a source of anxiety – around 4 out of 10 Americans say that their retirement savings are a “major source” of stress in their lives. But less – only about 2 out of 10 – identify the stock market as a major source of anxiety.
“This whole tariff war is only a losing situation not only for the American people, but everyone in the world,” said Nicole Jones, 32. “It’s a revenge – and everyone loses it.”
The resident of Englewood, in Florida, voted last year for the president of the time, Kamala Harris, who replaced the outgoing president, Joe Biden, as a Democratic candidate. Jones had not thought much about prices until recently, and now, as an occupational therapy student, she is also concerned about losing her financial aid and facing high quantities of educational debt.
“Things are more expensive for us,” she said.
And most Americans still think that the national economy is in a weak state.
The difference is that the Republicans – who largely thought that the economy was in poor condition when Biden was president – now feels more optimistic. But democrats have become much darker in the country’s financial future.
“It was not the whole sun and the rainbow, but we were going well,” said Jones, a democratic voter, about the economy before the entry into force of Trump’s policies.
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The AP-Noc survey with 1,260 adults was conducted from April 17 to 21, using a sample drawn from the amerispeak panel based on the probability of NORC, which is designed to be representative of the American population. The sampling margin for adults as a whole is more or less 3.9 percentage points.
