As President Trump gets ready to address Congress for the first time since reentering the Oval Office,

our latest PBS News NPR Marist poll offers a new look at what the American public thinks about the actions his administration has taken in these first 43 days.

Lisa Desjardin is at the super screen to walk us through the numbers.

Hey there, Lisa. Hi. All right. So big picture.

What to the American people? Think about the president and the changes he's making.

Let's start with that top figure, the approval rating. Where are Americans that we asked about that

right now? 45% approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president so far. I'm going to write that

number down. I want you to remember that 45%. Now, more Americans disapprove, but just barely. Why is this 45 number

significant? This is Trump's approval rating up and down over time. Here we are right now at 45%.

This is the largest approval rating he is experienced in office as president much higher

than where he ended during his first term. Now another thing we asked folks about all of these

actions that Trump is taking, do you think that they are for the good mostly or not for the good,

for the bad, for this country? Do they make things better or worse? When we asked that

question, 45%, that same number said, we think these actions make things better in this country.

Now, it's not a coincidence that those numbers are the same. Forty-five percent generally like

the job he's doing, think it's for the better. What's being driven, what's driving that is a single

force, Republicans.

Of those, when we ask people who they think if Trump is doing a better job, 88% of Republicans

think what Trump is doing is for the better for this country versus just 12% of Democrats.

These two groups live in completely different worlds, almost different planets,

independence, a minority of them also believe Trump is doing a better job. It is Republicans

who are really pushing Trump's numbers to go higher right now. Now, at the same time,

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