Day: October 22, 2025

Approval of Congress Hits New Low

Buck Banks

15%

A new Gallup poll finds just 15% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. And in what may be an ominous sign for Republicans, the share of GOP voters who view Congress favorably dropped 21 points to just 33% in the poll conducted just after the shutdown began — a stark shift from a high of 63% earlier this year, after Republicans gained control of both chambers.

Big Majority Says Country Going in Wrong Direction

Buck Banks

62%

A new PRRI poll finds 62% of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, fueled by dissatisfaction with President Trump’s impact on the economy, immigration, race relations and the nation’s global standing. Even among Republicans, a significant share — nearly 30% — gave Trump low marks on the economy and how the government is functioning. A new AP-NORC poll found 69% of Americans thought the nation was headed in the wrong direction and 30% in the right direction.

Ghostwriter Knows Who’s in the Epstein Files

Buck Banks

“I know all the names … It exists in the FBI files. It exists in the Epstein files, as we now call them … There are four different document dumps, and there are many, many names in those … They have the names — and they’ve had them for more than a decade.”

— Amy Wallace, “The ghost writer who helped Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, pen her posthumous memoir claimed she knows everyone named in the so-called Epstein files,” the New York Post reports.