After a handful of awful and downright historical polling returns across the past week, President Donald Trump finally got some good news Thursday from CNN data guru Harry Enten.

That news?

Well, despite the chaos it has created at times, folks are still on board with the idea of DOGE.

And that came as a big surprise to Enten.

“This to me was one of the more shocking figures that I saw,” he said. “Made me go, ‘Wait a minute, hold on one second, woah!’”

Enten then showed that 54% of those polled said that Elon Musk and DOGE should influence government spending and operations. And, Enten said, when asked if they approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies, 51% of those polled said they did.

“So, yeah Elon Musk might not be that popular, but these cuts and the idea of spending cuts at least within the federal government and cutting at government agencies, that actually has majority support,” Enten said. “I was truly surprised by this Kate, but the numbers are the numbers.’

Enten addressed, too, polling on the types of cuts that Musk and DOGE are making.

“Democrats want to argue that the type of spending that Musk is cutting is mainly necessary programs,” Etnen said. “But that comes in at just 36%. The wasteful spending actually wins the plurality here at 42% according to a recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll, and I think that is the reason why you see that when it comes to Musk and DOGE, you see in fact the majority believe he should have some influence because they believe, the plurality believe he is cutting wasteful spending, not necessary programs that Democrats are arguing.”

Enten finally tackled the question of whether the government was doing too little or too much at the moment.

“Back in 2020 when Trump lost re-election, 54% said too little,” Enten said. “By the time he won the election in 20204, look at that, 55% said too much. So, I think there’s this real push from the U.S. Government to drop, and I think that is part of the reason why they are giving Musk and DOGE that majority at least at this point when it comes to his influence over federal government.

The positive DOGE polling results come on the heels of back-to-back days of terrible polling numbers for Trump delivered by Enten.

He revealed on Wednesday that the president is performing poorly with those polled on the economy.

“No, no, no, no … the answer to the question is, no,” CNN data guru Harry Enten said Wednesday when asked if the country believes the president is pushing the economy to the top of his agenda enough. “Trump and the economy. He should prioritize, here on Planet Earth, 82% say he should prioritize. It’s almost as if Trump is on Planet Krypton. Look at this. He is prioritizing the economy, just 36% (say he is). My goodness gracious, I don’t understand how this mathematical formula works, right. If the economy is the number one issue, if that is what Americans think he should be prioritizing, and well less than half think that you are, no wonder Trump is having problems with the economy.

With the stock market taking a major hit, Enten was then asked how Americans view stocks and how that translates to their opinions on the economy. And that, too, could be bad news for Trump.

“This to me is a shocking number, and it tells you why the stock market is so important to perception,” he said as he pulled up a graph showing that 61% of Americans have a job and 62% own a stock. “American adults who have a job currently (61%), at least in January, the percentage that own a stock either directly or indirectly, perhaps your 401K, 62%. So, the stock market is as important to economic perceptions in my mind as is the unemployment number given that about the same percentage of Americans, in fact one point more Americans own stock than actually have a job, and that is why the stock market going (down) could lead to Donald Trump’s approval rating following along on the roller coaster.

Enten did say that Trump’s approval rating took a tick up following his speech to congress more than the average president at plus-1.6.

“But that was just a momentary bump,” he said. “That really isn’t going to change the game. Something is going to have to happen on the economy, and perceptions of him and how he is doing on the economy if he wants to see his approval rating go up instead of going down like it currently is.”

And Enten revealed historic net approval rating polling for Trump on Tuesday.

Enten said the only person to poll worse than Trump during this second term, historically, was Trump during his first term.

“We are going to look at presidents at this point in their presidency, right?” Enten said as he pulled up a graphic on CNN Tuesday. “And the word that I would use to describe Trump is ‘awful.’ In fact, the only person who does worse than Trump does right now with a plus-1 net approval rating is himself back in 2017 when he was at a minus-8. So, he’s doing better than he was. He’s making gains, but he’s doing worse than everybody else.

“The average president at this point, get this, plus-27 on their net approval,” Enten added. “Donald Trump is doing historically awful. The only person he beat is, again, himself from term number one.”

Enten was then asked about how Trump was polling on the economy.

“Well, he beat himself on worst overall, but on the economy, he can’t even beat himself,” Enten said. “Again, this is historically, the worst going back in polling. The net approval rating on the economy, he’s right now at minus-4 points. In term number one, he was at plus-8 points. Historically, the average is plus-15 points. He is doing nearly 20 points worse than the average president when it comes to the economy on net approval rating. He is historically doing awful, awful, awful. Weak, weak, weak. And on the issue in which he was elected to fix (the economy), he is doing historically awful. This is not good. If this number holds, you can guarantee his overall approval rating will go down, and it could take his entire presidency with him.”

Enten was then asked about the tariffs, and he showed polling that showed 64% oppose tariffs with Canada and 59% oppose them with Mexico.“We are already dealing with a president where the economy is bringing him down, these tariffs, in my mind, will only bring him down further,” Enten said. “Historically awful polling at this point, and the tariffs I think will only lead to further deterioration.

“Americans don’t like the idea of prices going up,” he added. “That leads to approval ratings going down.”