{"id":222302,"date":"2025-04-08T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=222302"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:03:10","slug":"americans-give-early-trump-foreign-policy-actions-mixed-or-negative-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2025\/04\/08\/americans-give-early-trump-foreign-policy-actions-mixed-or-negative-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Americans see the president favoring Russia too much than striking the right balance<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The sign on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s headquarters building in the District of Columbia is removed on Feb. 7, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this study to gauge Americans\u2019 views of the second Trump administration\u2019s earliest foreign policy actions. The issues covered in this report include withdrawing from global agreements, ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, trade and tariffs, and U.S. territorial expansion. This analysis builds on the Center\u2019s previous study of Americans\u2019 opinions on the most pressing foreign policy issues of the day going back decades, such as on major world conflicts<\/a>, trade and tariffs<\/a>, U.S. military decisions<\/a> and other related developments of the times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this analysis, we surveyed 3,605 U.S. adults from March 24 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions used<\/a> for this analysis, along with responses<\/a>, and its methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump is pursuing a markedly different foreign policy strategy than former President Joe Biden. He has withdrawn the United States from international agreements<\/a>, is working more closely with Russia<\/a> to end the war in Ukraine, has discussed taking over foreign territory<\/a> and has imposed tariffs on trade partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of these early foreign policy actions receive mixed or negative reviews<\/strong> from Americans,<\/strong> according to a survey of 3,605 adults conducted March 24-30, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, more Americans disapprove than approve of the U.S.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n