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Trust in the Federal Government

Share of Americans who trust the federal government to do what is right always or most of the time, %

22% in 20250 pp since 2024
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Current·Data to 2025

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Pew Research Center, compiled from its own and earlier national election surveys.

How much Americans trust Washington, from surveys going back to the 1950s. Trust fell sharply in the 1960s and 1970s and has stayed low.

What this chart reads

Sources

PEW: Trust in federal government. Source: Pew Research Center and the American National Election Studies publish this series. Palanor receives it as pew_research.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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