BURSTThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) saw the biggest jump in public approval among a group of federal agencies in the last year, a new Gallup poll found.
In the new Gallup poll, 42 percent of respondents said the job being done by DHS was either “excellent” or “good.” Last year, 32 percent of respondents said the same about the department.
Twenty-three percent in the Gallup poll said the job being done by DHS was “only fair, while 33 percent called DHS’s job “poor.”
The jump in approval rating for DHS is notable amid the backdrop of the Trump administration’s heavy crackdown on immigration within the last year. On Tuesday, the department touted a 55-year low in Border Patrol apprehensions.
“For too long, agents and officers were handcuffed by failed policies. Today they are empowered to do their jobs – and the result is the lowest apprehensions in more than five decades, and the most secure border in modern history,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said in a Tuesday press release.
The Gallup poll found a big drop in approval for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The percentage polled between 2024 and 2025 who perceived FEMA as doing an “excellent” or “good job” fell 20 points, from 46 percent to 26 percent.
Back in September, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) said the Trump administration broke the law when it held back three types of grants managed by FEMA.
The Gallup poll took place from Sep. 2 to 16, featuring 1,000 people, with plus or minus four percentage points as its margin of sampling error.