Overview
- Gallup’s Sept. 2–16 survey finds sharp year-over-year declines for FEMA, CDC, EPA, FDA, CIA and IRS, with several at or near record lows in tracking since 2003.
- DHS records the largest increase, with 42% rating its work excellent or good versus 32% in 2024, a shift reported alongside the administration’s immigration crackdown and CBP’s claim of a 55-year low in apprehensions.
- FEMA posts the steepest slide, down 20 points to 26%, following a GAO finding in September that the administration unlawfully withheld three FEMA grant programs.
- Partisan gaps widen: Republicans now give majority-positive ratings to DHS (73%), the Defense Department (74%) and the FBI (51%), while Democrats’ positive views drop across most agencies.
- USPS remains the only agency with majority approval at 56% and the only one whose standing with Democrats did not worsen; the poll interviewed 1,000 adults by phone with a ±4-point margin of error.