The poll, taken from Feb. 3-16, found that Republicans gave Congress a 53% approval rating, the highest since 2005, when they gave the Republican trifecta a 57% approval rating. The last time the congressional approval rating among Republicans was at or above 50% was at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s first term in 2017, when they gave it 50%.

The approval rating change is a massive change for GOP voters from a low of 4% in 2022.

The highest recorded congressional approval rating from Republicans came immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when it stood at 89%.

Democratic voters have had similar trends in their views of Congress, with spikes of approval during the onset of a new Democratic administration. The highest Democratic totals of the past 20 years were 63% in 2009 and 61% in 2021; approval ratings have been underwater for the most part after those spikes, though typically not as low as the lowest Republican approval ratings.

The current surge in Republican support for the GOP-led Congress appears to be Trump’s doing; the same poll found a 93% approval rating for the president among Republicans, among his highest ever.

However, his overall approval rating was 45%, due to a 4% approval rating among Democrats and 37% among independents.

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On individual issues, Trump received a 92% approval rating from Republicans on immigration, 90% for foreign affairs, 90% for the economy, 89% for foreign trade, 80% for his handling of the Middle East, and 80% for his handling of Ukraine.

Trump entered office having almost completely consolidated support from the Republican Party in Congress. Unlike 2017, when a slew of Republican voices were vocally against him, almost no congressional Republicans now speak out against him. So far, all of his Cabinet nominations, including the most controversial ones such as Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have been approved by the Senate.