At a time when the U.S. is dealing with the federal debt limit, the budget, the rollout of the healthcare law, and the situation in Syria, trust in all three branches of the federal government remains on the lower end of what Gallup has measured historically. Americans’ trust in the executive and judicial branches of the federal government are both down five percentage points in 2013, to 51% and 62%, respectively. Trust in the legislative branch is the lowest of the three, at 34%, and is unchanged from 2012. [cont.]
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup