Public confidence in key U.S. leaders’ management of the national economy is shaken amid the highest inflation rate in more than 40 years and Americans’ increasingly bleak assessments of the national economy and their own financial situations.
Less than half of U.S. adults say they have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of confidence in Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (43%) or President Joe Biden (40%), as well as Republican (40%) and Democratic (38%) leaders in Congress, to do or recommend the right thing for the economy. CONTINUED
Megan Brenan, Gallup
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