Where Data Tells the Story
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America is waiting in anticipation to see if a federal funding deal will be reached by midnight tomorrow to avoid a government shutdown — which would mark the 22nd shutdown in the last five decades and the fourth since 2018.
Regardless of whether the shutdown goes ahead — and if it’s met with a wave of mass resignations or mass firings, or both — Americans’ view of the US government as a whole appears to have soured.
An updated survey from Gallup for 2025, published last Thursday, asked US adults to rate 25 key business sectors on a five-point scale from “very positive” to “very negative,” and found that the federal government was the worst-rated sector, with more than 6 in 10 respondents reporting a negative view.
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