Only 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Beyond his appointments, though, the survey finds a similar level of confidence in Trump's ability to manage government spending and perform other key presidential tasks, including overseeing the military and the White House -- which, in Trump's first term, experienced significant high-level staff turnover, particularly in its early days.
57% : But only around 3 in 10 Americans are "extremely" or "very" confident that Trump will pick qualified people to serve in his administration.
46% : WASHINGTON -- Americans may have recently elected Donald Trump to a second term, but that doesn't mean they have high confidence in his ability to choose well-qualified people for his Cabinet -- or effectively manage government spending, the military and the White House, according to a new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
44% : A large share of Democrats are suspicious of Trump's abilities on all of these fronts -- about three-quarters say they are "not at all confident" that he will be able to effectively manage the White House, government spending or the military, or choose well-qualified people for his Cabinet.
26% : Trump has promised to shake up Washington with an aggressive approach that includes the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a nongovernmental task force assigned to find ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations, to be helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
11% : Biden had similar hurdles at the start of his termWhen Biden took office in 2021, people also harbored some doubts about how he'd carry out some major responsibilities -- but unlike with Trump, where concern is fairly even across different tasks, they were more confident in Biden's ability to do some things than others.

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