Americans rate the ethics of the Biden administration more negatively than positively, with only 42 percent of people giving it a positive rating, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
The 42 percent ethics score given to the \u201ctop Biden administration officials,\u201d in the poll\u2019s language, is just above the 37- and 38-percent scores given to former President Trump\u2019s top officials during his administration. The poll is the first ethics assessment from Gallup since President Biden\u2002took office.
The poll found that 34 percent of Americans find the Biden officials\u2019 ethics standards good, and 37 percent find them poor. Among Democrats, 84 percent rated the Biden administrations\u2019 ethics as excellent or good, while only 6 percent of Republicans gave them that rating.
Biden\u2019s overall approval rating has held at a steady-but-low figure of around 40 percent, according to to recent polling.
The same Gallup polling gave former President George W. Bush\u2019s\u2002administration an ethics rating above 70 percent and former President Obama\u2019s\u2002administration an ethics rating of 50 percent while they were serving in office. Those ratings were also close to Bush\u2019s and Obama\u2019s approval ratings at the time.
The poll released Thursday was conducted from July 3-27 and included 1,015 American adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n