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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to the lowest point of either of his terms in office, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll.

The survey, conducted July 25-27 among 1,559 U.S. adult citizens, found 34 percent approve of the job Trump is doing as president, down 2 points from the previous week, while 62 percent disapprove, up 2 points.

It is the lowest approval rating Trump has recorded with the pollster since returning to office, surpassing previous lows notched earlier this year.


Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration, American scientists might be forced to watch similar discoveries from the sidelines.

The proposal would restrict international collaboration and give political appointees the ability to decide the most important research to fund, and the power to pull the plug at any time, for any reason.


Analyst Nate Silver said Sunday that Americans may be "moving on" from President Trump amid rocky political territory for the president and his party.

"It's kind of striking how, apart from Iran, most of the Trump-related stories this summer have been boring and dumb (reflection pool, White House Correspondents' Dinner) or kind of funny (FIFA), maybe we're moving on from him being the central figure in American politics," Silver said in a post Sunday morning on the social platform X.


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"As soon as he learned about the proposal, one of the U.S. scientists who took part in the landmark project rushed to file his objection with the federal government.

"These experiments take decades to build and require sustained, cooperative international investment," University of Chicago physics professor David W. Miller wrote in a public comment.

"The experiments will continue, without American leadership. ... The United States will not just fall behind. It will step aside."

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The rule's implications reach far beyond physics. Proposed by the Office of Management and Budget, a little-known but powerful part of the White House that guides federal spending, it would give the administration's political appointees across dozens of federal agencies significant discretion over how grants are awarded and terminated. The appointees don't have to know anything about science or the subjects of the grants they're reviewing.

"Russell Vought, who runs the office and has made expanding presidential control over federal spending one of his signature goals, has put the philosophy into practice over the past two years, helping to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and, in another controversial move, blocking funds already allocated by Congress.

Vought's decision last year to cancel 284 Department of Energy grants drew renewed criticism after an agency lawyer recently admitted in court records that the terminations were "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state" " in other words, blue states."

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