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President Donald Trump’s net approval rating dropped in three new surveys taken in the wake of his sweeping tariff announcement on April 2—though most Americans don’t think Trump will keep the new taxes, according to the latest poll. April 13-6 net approval rating: More than half, 53%, of the 2,410 U.S. adults who responded to an April 8-11 CBS/YouGov poll said they disapprove of Trump’s job performance, compared to 47% who approve (margin of error 2.4 points), a dip in Trump’s rating since the groups’ March survey that found equal shares of Americans approve and disapprove. The poll also found 58% oppose and 42% favor Trump’s new tariffs on imported goods, but 51% like his goals for the tariffs—to return manufacturing jobs to the U.S. and decrease the import/export margins between the U.S. and its trading partners, he has said—though 63% dislike his approach for achieving those goals. More Americans, 59%, believe Trump is using the new tariffs to negotiate with other countries and will remove them later, compared to 41% who think he’ll keep them permanently. April 9-12: Trump’s disapproval rating stayed stagnant, at 53%, in the latest Quinnipiac University poll taken April 3-7 among 1,407 self-identified registered voters, though his approval rating decreased one point, to 41%, compared to the group’s previous survey taken in March (the shift is within the poll’s 2.6-point margin of error). The poll found the majority of voters (72%) think Trump’s tariffs on all U.S. trading partners would hurt the economy in the short-term, while 53% said they believe the policy would hurt the economy in the long-term. April 9-8: A new Economist/YouGov survey taken April 5-8, after Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement on April 2, found 51% disapprove of his job performance, compared to 43% who approve, a five-point swing since the groups’…

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