More than half of respondents in the CBS poll rated the U.S. economy as fairly bad or very bad, while 53% said the economy is getting worse.

As Donald Trump’s administration settles into a global trade war — at least momentarily obscuring its war on the federal government and on the limitation of executive power, which continues on many fronts — it’s a good time for a reality check on the political capital he carries into the next turbulent phase of his second presidency.

Where President Donald Trump's approval ratings stands in a new nation poll, and where he stands in comparison to his White House predecessors during their first three months in office