European Union citizens are divided on how the EU should approach the new Donald Trump administration in 2025. According to recent survey data, 43 percent believe the EU should seek compromise with the U.S. government, while 33 believe think the EU should take a more oppositional stance.

As of April 2025, about 44 percent of Americans approved of the way Donald Trump was handling his job as president. President Trump’s public approval fluctuated during his first term, falling to 34 percent toward the end of his first term in 2021. Approval of Administration Donald Trump’s presidency has caused a lot of controversy and debate both within and outside the United States. It took only eight days from his first day in office for Donald Trump to receive a 50 percent disapproval rating. The President is not the only politician with low approval ratings, as many Senators also face low approval ratings. However, President Trump’s second term approval ratings are not much lower than his approval rating after the same amount of time in office during his first term.

The Trump administration may invest Chips Act funds in Intel for a stake, supporting domestic semiconductor manufacturing as global demand rises.

An executive order is one of the most commonly used form of administrative action taken by the President of the United States. It is where an order or directive regarding the management of the U.S. government is signed into law by the president. Executive orders are generally used by presidents to influence U.S. laws and the administration of the country, without the need for a vote in Congress or the Supreme Court; although these orders are subject to judicial review, and can be challenged by the courts or another branch of government. If deemed unlawful or unconstitutional, the order will be revoked or cancelled, and a president may also revoke, cancel or amend any executive order that they, or any other presidents, have made. The U.S.' first 25 presidents signed a combined total of 1,262 executive orders in roughly 112 years, averaging at around 12 per year, however there was a large increase in the number of orders issued in the first half of the twentieth century. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, was the first to issue more than one thousand executive orders alone; while Woodrow Wilson, who was in office during the First World War, signed more than 1,800. Franklin D. Roosevelt The president who signed the most executive orders was Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), who, during his twelve years in office, signed more than a quarter of all executive orders ever published. While FDR did serve over four years more than any other president, he still issued the highest number of average annual executive orders, with over three hundred per year. FDR was in office throughout most of the Second World War, although the majority of these orders came in his earlier years in office (more than a thousand orders were signed in 1933 and 1934), as he used his New Deal policies to lead the U.S. through its economic recovery from the Great Depression. Roosevelt's most controversial order, however, did relate to the Second World War; this was Order 9066, which saw approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent, and almost 15,000 ethnic Germans and Italians, interned in concentration camps for almost three years.

Notable orders Arguably, the most famous and well known executive order was Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation** in 1862, which changed the legal status of all enslaved people in the Confederate states during the Civil War, and declared them free in the eyes of the Union. A number of other orders also marked notable milestones in African-American civil rights; including the desegregation of the U.S. military by President Truman in 1948, and the desegregation of public schools by President Eisenhower in 1957. While the number of orders issued by presidents has decreased since the Eisenhower administration, recent presidents have generally issued between 100 and 200 orders during each term. Examples of more controversial orders from recent years include George W. Bush's Order 13233, which tightened restrictions on the accessibility of former U.S. presidents' records, and Donald Trump's Order 13769, which placed travel bans on citizens from a number of Muslim-majority countries; Bush's Order was eventually revoked by Barack Obama the day after his inauguration, while Trump's travel ban was one of several executive orders repealed by Joe Biden on his first day in office.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Motor Vehicles and Parts (CES3133600101) from Jan 1990 to Aug 2025 about parts, establishment survey, durable goods, vehicles, goods, employment, and USA.

Trump announces Meta's potential $50B investment in a massive Louisiana AI data center, a project exceeding typical market expenditures and backed by a record $29B financing package.

Analysis of new US tariffs on furniture imports aimed at boosting domestic production, with data on job losses and impacts on major exporters like China and Vietnam.

As of the first quarter of 2025, the GDP of the U.S. fell by 0.5 percent from the fourth quarter of 2024. GDP, or gross domestic product, is effectively a count of the total goods and services produced in a country over a certain period of time. It is calculated by first adding together a country’s total consumer spending, government spending, investments and exports; and then deducting the country’s imports. The values in this statistic are the change in ‘constant price’ or ‘real’ GDP, which means this basic calculation is also adjusted to factor in the regular price changes measured by the U.S. inflation rate. Because of this adjustment, U.S. real annual GDP will differ from the U.S. 'nominal' annual GDP for all years except the baseline from which inflation is calculated. What is annualized GDP? The important thing to note about the growth rates in this statistic is that the values are annualized, meaning the U.S. economy has not actually contracted or grown by the percentage shown. For example, the fall of 29.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020 did not mean GDP is suddenly one third less than a year before. In fact, it means that if the decline seen during that quarter continued at the same rate for a full year, then GDP would decline by this amount. Annualized values can therefore exaggerate the effect of short-term economic shocks, as they only look at economic output during a limited period. This effect can be seen by comparing annualized quarterly growth rates with the annual GDP growth rates for each calendar year.

Nvidia's CEO discusses a new AI chip for China, the B30A, with the US government, awaiting approval amid ongoing trade and security negotiations.

The seasonally-adjusted national unemployment rate is measured on a monthly basis in the United States. In June 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4.1 percent. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method of removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

Analysis of the Trump administration's immediate tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals and other goods, exploring the policy's rationale, criticism, and conflicting economic data.

Abstract (en): This special topic poll, fielded October 28-30, 1999, solicited public opinion on the presidency, the 2000 presidential race, and other national political issues. The results of the poll were announced on the CBS television program "The Early Show". Respondents were asked to give their opinions of the Bill Clinton presidency, whether Clinton accomplished most of what he set out to do as president, whether the country was a better place as a result of his presidency, what the greatest successes and greatest failures of his administration were, and whether the respondent's vote in the 2000 presidential election should be viewed as a referendum on the president's policies. Opinions were also solicited regarding the most important problems that the federal government should address in the coming year, who could be trusted more to balance the federal budget, Congress or the President, and the role that the incoming First Lady should play in policy-making. A series of questions dealt with the upcoming presidential election. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of Vice President Al Gore, Texas governor George W. Bush, former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, and Arizona senator John McCain, and to comment on whom they would prefer as the nominee of their respective political parties, and how they would vote in various hypothetical match-ups. Each candidate was assessed in terms of having the right kind of experience and leadership qualities to be president, the ability to understand the complicated problems confronting a national leader, the ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, honesty, integrity, and concern for the needs and problems of people like the respondent. Opinions were also solicited on conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, developer Donald Trump, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Respondents were also asked whether they preferred that political candidates spend their time listening to what the voters have to say or explaining their positions to the voters, whether the candidates for president should be judged on both their political records and their personal lives, and how much attention respondents had paid to the presidential election campaign so far. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, race, education, religion, voter registration and participation history, political party, political orientation, Hispanic descent, marital status, computer access, age of children in household, and family income. ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels.. 2009-04-29 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR updated the frequency file for this collection to include the original question text.2009-04-22 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR created the full data product suite for this collection. Note that the ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has also been added. This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity.The ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has been added to the collection.

Oil prices surged due to Trump's skepticism about Iran negotiations and optimism for a China trade deal, supported by lower US inflation and positive market sentiment.

In the 2021 C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership, Abraham Lincoln was chosen as the country's top ranked president for the fourth time in a row. This is the fourth survey of its kind; the first was conducted in 2000, during Bill Clinton's final year in office, while the subsequent three surveys were held in the years after each respective president left office. Compared to the previous survey, the top nine presidents have remained in the same positions, while Barack Obama moved up from 12th place in 2017 to round out the top 10 in 2021. The bottom three presidents also remained unchanged from previous surveys, and were Abraham Lincoln's two predecessors and successor, ranked so low due to their perceived failures before and after the American Civil War.

Criteria A total of 142 experts took part in this survey, and were asked to rank each president on a scale of one (not effective) to ten (very effective) across ten different qualities. Scores in each area were then converted to an average value out of 100, and combined to give a total score out of 1,000. Generally, there was a strong correlation across the board in each area, for example, Lincoln ranked among the top four in each individual area, while Buchanan was in the bottom three of each. Despite this, there was some deviation; Lyndon Johnson was ranked second in the category Pursued Equal Justice For All, but 39th in International Relations. There has also been deviation over time, such as Woodrow Wilson falling from sixth place overall in 2000, to 13th place in 2021, or Ulysses S. Grant moving up from 33rd to 20th over the same period, as perceptions of past presidents' performances are revised over time.

Donald Trump The most recent president, Donald Trump, made his first appearance at number 41 on the list, out of a total of 44 entries (Grover Cleveland is generally viewed as the 22nd and 24th president, but has been included once here). In the individual criteria, Trump was ranked last in both Moral Authority and Administrative Skills, whereas Public Persuasion was the only area where he did not feature in the bottom quartile. The next survey will likely take place in either 2025 or 2029, at the end of Joe Biden's time in office, while we may be seeing Trump re-evaluated in the 2029 survey if he does run for office again and takes victory in the 2024 election.

As in previous decades, spaceflight science and space exploration are still, by far, the largest areas of investment, although the department of safety, security and mission services also has a considerable portion of the budget. One notable change in NASA’s overall budget in 2020 is that there is no provision for education or STEM engagement.

NASA in the 2010s 2011 marked the end of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, with the retirement of the three remaining shuttles taking place between February and July. This program launched in 1972, completed over 130 successful missions, and was instrumental in supplying the International Space Station (ISS). Throughout the 2010s progress continued regarding the ISS and NASA's commercial contracts. Plans to launch and facilitate a space-tourism program are in place and are expected to begin in the next year. Between the years 2010 and 2017 NASA conducted the Beyond Low Earth Orbit Program, which would help enable missions that go beyond the earth's orbit, including plans for a space station that orbits the moon. NASA has also sent many unmanned projects to other celestial bodies, including Mars and Jupiter.

The new world In 2017, NASA was directed by the government to get humans near or on the surface of Mars by 2030, and later that year the Trump administration approved plans to launch the Artemis Project, which would land the first woman on the moon, as part of their project to go to Mars. Although NASA is set to receive almost 23 billion dollars in 2020, this is less than 0.5 percent of the total US budget for the year, which many prominent scientists, such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, feel is not enough.

On September 1, 2019, the United States imposed import tariffs on *** billion U.S. dollars worth of Chinese goods, such as footwear, food products, and some home electronics. A trade war between the world's two largest economies was initiated by president Trump in mid-2018 and escalated further throughout 2019.