https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/even-worse-than-trump-disapproval-for-republican-led-congress-reaches-86
Even worse than Trump: Disapproval for Republican-led Congress reaches 86%
On most of the major issues of the day, Americans of different parties and ideologies tend not to see eye to eye, but Im pleased to report that theres one thing 86% of the country can agree on: This Congress sure is awful.
Americans approval of Congress has fallen to 10%, barely above its all-time low of 9%, while disapproval has climbed to 86%, tying the record high for the institution. [
] Congress approval ratings have been mostly underwater since 1974, averaging 28% approval and 65% disapproval. More recently, approval has remained below 30% for most of the past five years, with sustained stretches in the teens.
The only other time in the past half-century when Congress had a lower approval rating was in the fall of 2013, when Republican leaders shut down the government and threatened a debt ceiling crisis that wouldve crashed the economy on purpose. At that point, Gallup showed Congress support falling to just 9% a point lower than the pollsters latest findings.
As recently as March 2025, Gallup showed the institutions approval rating at a relatively high 31%, fueled largely by support among GOP voters for the Republican-led House and Senate, but that support has slid sharply over the past year, as approval for Congress among Republican voters has dropped from 63% to 20%. (Among independent voters, approval is down to 11%, while among Democratic voters, it now stands at just 3%.)