A top spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., summed up the legislative achievements of the Republican-controlled 115th Congress as such: “The most accomplished Congress in decades.” McConnell declared that it was "the best … in my time in the Senate."
The public, however, disagreed. According to a Gallup survey conducted immediately after the 2018 midterm elections, only 21 percent approved of Congress and 74 percent disapproved. The number of Americans who liked what “the most accomplished Congress in decades” was accomplishing hovered around 18 percent throughout 2017 and 2018. While Congress's approval is usually low (31 percent of Americans have approved of the institution, on average, since Gallup first began tracking such sentiment in 1974), 18 percent is a lot lower than 31 percent.
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