Americans broadly want Donald Trump’s administration to focus on improving the U.S. economy over the president’s escalating threats of foreign intervention, according to a pair of polls released this weekend.
In a Wall Street Journal poll, majorities of respondents said that the economy was weak (57 percent) and similarly believed that it had grown weaker during the first year of Trump’s second presidency (49 percent). Only a little more than one-third of voters, 35 percent, said that the economy had improved over the past 12 months. By a 12-point margin, Americans said that they feel constrained by cost-of-living pressures.
