Americans’ trust in the federal government to handle international problems has mostly recovered from last year’s record-low reading following the United States’ troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The current 45% of U.S. adults who express “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of confidence in the government’s handling of foreign issues is up six percentage points from one year ago, when it fell by nine points.
At the same time, the 40% of Americans with the same degree of trust in the government’s handling of domestic problems is essentially unchanged near the low point for the trend. CONTINUED
Megan Brenan, Gallup
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