Quinnipiac polling puts President Trump's approval rating at 32%, lower than Jimmy Carter's 34% at the end of his term — the same Carter presidency Trump has repeatedly invoked as shorthand for failure.
The piece ties the number to a list of concurrent problems: a measles outbreak large enough to threaten the country's elimination status, eleven active foodborne illness outbreaks following cuts to inspection and surveillance agencies, and munitions stockpiles reportedly depleted by up to 80% in some categories after strikes on Iran.
It also cites reports of sailors jumping overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln amid poor shipboard conditions, alongside separate findings that just 19% of respondents felt better off than a year earlier, down from 28% in January.
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