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🗓️ 25 April 2025
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Friday briefing: Trump’s approval ratings; Pete Hegseth; Pope Francis’s funeral; measles warning; NFL draft; cicadas; and more
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0:00.0 | Some of President Donald Trump's approval ratings have hit a new low. |
0:07.5 | World leaders are heading to Pope Francis' funeral, and a cicada invasion is imminent. |
0:14.1 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
0:17.7 | I'm Rennie Svranovsky in for Hannah Jewel. It's Friday, April 25th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
0:28.4 | Number one. President Trump's approval ratings on immigration have turned negative. This morning, |
0:35.3 | the Post published a new poll with ABC News and Ipsos, and the results |
0:39.8 | do not make a good reading for the president. A majority of Americans, 53%, now disapprove of |
0:46.7 | Trump's handling of immigration. That's a reversal from February when half of the public voiced |
0:52.7 | approval of his approach to one of his core policy issues. |
0:56.8 | The poll is a sign that the Trump administration's hardline and, in some cases, legally dubious |
1:02.2 | enforcement tactics, are losing public support. And it comes amid mounting public frustration more |
1:08.7 | broadly over Trump's presidency as it closes in on its first |
1:12.6 | 100 days next week. Multiple polls this week show Trump hitting new lows. His approval rating has |
1:19.7 | been double digits underwater in at least four recent surveys. But most of Trump's major |
1:25.7 | policies appear to be even more unpopular than he is. |
1:29.3 | That suggests his image is being buoyed by loyalists who might not like what they're seeing, |
1:34.3 | but still say they support him for now. |
1:41.3 | Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett's chief of staff quit yesterday. |
1:47.8 | That's number two. |
1:49.7 | This was the latest twist in a period of turmoil at the Pentagon. |
1:54.3 | There have been reports of infighting among Hegseth's advisors. |
1:58.2 | At least three political appointees have been fired, |
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