Republican voters increasingly think Donald Trump can’t get the basic business of running the U.S. government right, a poll shows.

There is mounting dissatisfaction within the base over the president’s handling of the federal government amid what became the longest shutdown on record, the new survey found.

According to the poll, Republican backing for Trump’s management of the government has slipped by a whopping 13 points, from 81 percent in March down to just 68 percent as of the start of this month.

There’s also been a sharp decline in independents who assume a positive view on that front, dropping from 38 to 25 percent over the same period. Democratic approval has similarly inched down from an already-tiny nine to five percent.

The poll’s timing is salient. Trump and his allies ha

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