Poll Finds Upturn in Sentiment on Tax Overhaul and Economy<br />“I won’t say that Trump deserves all the credit for that, but it is true<br />that the economy just really picked up,” said Mr. Moran, who described himself as a political moderate who leans Republican but voted for neither Mr. Trump nor his opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016.<br />The tax overhaul that Mr. Trump signed into law just before Christmas remains relatively unpopular<br />and highly polarizing, according to a new poll conducted for by SurveyMonkey.<br />A year into his term, Mr. Moran still isn’t a fan, but he said he was “pleasantly surprised” by Mr. Trump’s stewardship of the economy.<br />Forty-six percent of Americans strongly or somewhat approved of the law in early<br />January, up from 37 percent when the bill was nearing passage in December.<br />A Gallup poll published last week found that approval for the law had risen to 33 percent in<br />January from 29 percent in December, an increase that was not statistically significant.<br />Over all, 42 percent of Americans believe the national economy is better than it was a year ago,<br />according to the Times survey, which polled 10,509 adults in the first week of January.<br />Supporters of the tax law dismissed its poor poll numbers in the fall, saying Americans<br />would like it more once they began to see its benefits in their take-home pay.
