Healthcare

Americans’ Trust In Health Info From Federal Gov’t Has Declined, New Poll Finds

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Screen Capture/CSPAN)

Americans’ trust in health information from the federal government has dropped since last year, according to an Axios-Ipsos survey out Tuesday.

Of those surveyed, 53% reported having a great deal or a fair amount of trust in health information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), marking a decrease from 62% in March 2025. Similarly, the share of Americans who have a “great deal” of belief in the CDC plunged from 23% to 11% during the same period, according to the poll.

The CDC did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Twenty percent of Americans trust healthcare information from President Donald Trump, marking a decline from 31% who said the same in March 2025, the survey found. Moreover, only 25% of respondents currently believe information from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., compared to 31% in March 2025.

The latest Axios-Ipsos survey also found that only 25% of U.S. adults trust congressional Democrats on health-related topics, while an even lower 20% said the same about congressional Republicans.

Kennedy asserted in a Sept. 3, 2025 X post that the CDC “once stood as the world’s most trusted guardian of public health,” adding that “bureaucracy, politicized science, and mission creep corroded its mission and destroyed public trust.”

“Secretary Kennedy has made clear that rebuilding public trust in our nation’s health agencies after it was eroded under the Biden Administration is a top priority. Together with CDC Director Dr. Schwartz, he is working to restore that trust through greater transparency and gold-standard science,” an HHS spokesperson told the DCNF. “We continue to see broad support for President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda as we confront the chronic disease epidemic and refocus our public health agencies on their core mission of protecting the health and well-being of the American people.”

Forty-six percent of CDC databases that were previously updated frequently are now outdated, according to a Jan. 26 report from The Scientist.

In late September, the CDC updated its webpage related to firearm injury to correct wording that understated the frequency with which guns are used for self-defense, the DCNF previously reported.

This Axios-Ipsos American Health Index survey was conducted from Sept. 25-28. The poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 1,122 U.S. adults.