Congressional Performance

Although fewer voters now have a negative view of how Congress is doing its job, a majority agree with a Republican congresswoman’s criticism of the GOP majority on Capitol Hill.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters rate Congress’ performance as good or excellent, up from 15% in March 2024. Forty-one percent (41%) now think Congress is doing a poor job, down from 59% last spring. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently said: “Republicans in Congress are not delivering on the mandate given to them by the American people.” Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters agree with that statement, including 33% who Strongly Agree. Twenty-seven percent (27%) disagree with the quote from Rep. Greene, while 11% are not sure.

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The survey of 1,047 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 6-8, 2025 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Among voters who rate Congress as doing a poor job, 49% Strongly Agree with the quote from Greene.

Majorities of every political category – 65% of Democrats, 60% of Republicans and 57% of voters not affiliated with either major party – at least somewhat agree with that “Republicans in Congress are not delivering.”

While nearly half (49%) of Republican voters say Congress is doing a good or excellent job, only 24% of Democrats and unaffiliated voters agree. Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats, 22% of Republicans and 47% of unaffiliated voters give Congress a poor rating.

Twenty-nine percent (29%) of whites, 32% of black voters, 41% of Hispanics and 39% of other minorities rate Congress as doing a good or excellent job. Congress gets a poor rating from 44% of whites, 37% of black voters, 29% of Hispanics and 40% of other minorities.

There isn’t much of a “gender gap” on these questions. Just slightly more men (63%) than women voters (59%) agree with Greene that congressional Republicans aren’t delivering on their mandate.

Voters 50 and older are significantly more likely than younger voters to give Congress a poor job-performance rating. Sixty-percent (66%) of voters in their 40s agree with the quote from Greene.

Breaking down the electorate by income categories, voters earning between $100,000 and $200,000 a year are most likely to rate Congress as doing a good or excellent job.

Among those who voted for Donald Trump in last year’s election, 49% give Congress a good or excellent rating, but just 15% of Kamala Harris voters share that opinion.

Nearly half of voters believe the news media are biased in favor of Democrats, and most Republicans think it’s impossible to hate the media too much. 

American voters overwhelmingly prefer the free-market economy to socialism, although younger voters are significantly less enthusiastic about the capitalist system. 

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