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# Public Rating of FDA, Others Dropping
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/public-rating-of-fda-others-dropping/
- Published: 2025-10-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T15:23:50.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5160013

Americans’ ratings of FDA and five other major agencies (FEMA, CIA, CDC, EPA, and IRS) “have deteriorated markedly since last year,” according to a new Gallup poll. The pollsters [say](https://news.gallup.com/poll/696059/americans-job-ratings-six-key-agencies-worsen.aspx?ref=fdaweb.com) the six agencies are at or near their lowest point in Gallup’s trend.

The report says the only agency that was measured both last year and this year and showed a significant improvement in public rating with the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. Postal Service is the only government agency to get a majority-level positive rating for its work. It is also the only agency that has not worsened among Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents since last year, Gallup says.

Reflecting the change in the White House, it says, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now evaluate nearly all agencies more positively than they did in 2024.

The poll was taken 9/2-9/16, before the partial government shutdown that took effect 10/1.

Gallup reports that FDA’s rating dropped seven points to 27%. It reached a high of 46% in 2017 and has been essentially falling since then.

The pollsters say that partisanship “plays a central role in shaping views of government agencies.”

The findings on FDA and other health agencies are consistent with those [reported](https://www.fdaweb.com/public-confidence-in-fda-others-dropping-survey/) in September from an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey measuring public confidence in federal health and science agencies.