According to the Reuters survey, 45% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance, down slightly from 47% in a Jan. 20-21 poll. And those who disapprove is larger at 46% from that same time period, an increase from 39%.

Billionaire Elon Musk's illegal overthrowing of the US Treasury by his so-called Department of Government Efficiency has some of president Donald Trump's loyalists uneasy. The massive overreach is sowing discord between Republican aides and Musk's army of college grads — who are currently making irreversible changes to the federal government's payments system without the required clearance — as Wired reports.

The party has struggled with how to respond to President Trump’s aggressive efforts to remake the federal bureaucracy and other controversies.