K-STREET, 10,000 FEET: President Donald Trump retains 50 percent favorable ratings, has strong backing to reduce costs by taking on the “strongest lobby in the world”: poll

THE LOWDOWN:

• Protecting American Consumers Together (PACT), a national advocacy group, just launched, but has already committed to spend $10 million in 2025 to go after trial lawyers and what they argue are the predatory practices of these so-called “billboard attorneys” that can raise prices for families.

• Despite endless attacks in the media and from Democrats in Congress, PACT’s polling finds that Trump’s favorables remain strong, with 50 percent of respondents in GS Strategy Group’s poll of 1,000 likely voters from across the nation saying they view him favorably, compared with 45 percent who find him unfavorable.

• PACT plans to share its latest polling results with both the White House and with members of Congress, it told the Reporter — and it has already found a willing partner with Gov. Brian Kemp (R., Ga.), who recently told the Ruthless Podcast that taking on tort reform is a top priority for him at home in Georgia.

President Donald Trump made lowering prices for consumers a fixture of his historic 2024 campaign, and a new advocacy group is arguing that trial lawyers are a stumbling block for his agenda.

Protecting American Consumers Together (PACT), a national advocacy group, just launched, but has already committed to spend $10 million in 2025 to go after trial lawyers and what PACT argues are the predatory practices of these so-called “billboard attorneys” that can raise prices for families.

Trump knows the trial lawyer lobby is a tough foe; he called the “lawyer lobby” the “strongest lobby in the world,” but PACT’s new polling, obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, suggests that Trump will have backing from broad swathes of the American people should he take them on.

Despite endless attacks in the media and from Democrats in Congress, PACT’s polling finds that Trump’s favorables remain strong, with 50 percent of respondents in GS Strategy Group’s poll of 1,000 likely voters from across the nation saying they view him favorably, compared with 45 percent who find him unfavorable.

PACT’s polling also shows that significant majorities of Americans are concerned about the costs of basic goods, and 86 percent of respondents have seen their cost of living go up within the past year. However, there are popular reforms that Trump could back, which PACT argues will lower costs.

“President Trump campaigned on lowering costs for Americans, and he can get it done by curbing lawsuit abuse,” Lauren Zelt, the executive director of PACT, said. “President Trump has called out the lawyer lobby as the ‘strongest lobby in the world’ — he’s right, and has a great opportunity to fix that. Voters across America believe their cost of living has gone up over the last 12 months, and federal reforms curbing lawsuit abuse are a great first step to deliver on this promise.”

70 percent of voters agree that lawsuit abuse contributes to higher costs, and PACT found that 83 percent of respondents support increased transparency on hidden fees paid to billboard attorneys, 77 percent support legal reforms to lower auto insurance rates, 75 percent want the fee arrangements between medical providers and attorneys to be disclosed, and 67 percent support capping attorney fees.

“President Trump has the opportunity to deliver on his campaign promise of lowering the cost of living on American families by ending lawsuit abuse in the U.S.,” the GS Strategy Group wrote in its polling memo. “In particular, American voters want Congress to act to eliminate the $4,200 hidden tax all American families pay as a result of frivolous lawsuits. Americans of all political stripes and across demographics support reforming our legal system to drive down the cost of goods and services in the U.S.”

PACT plans to share its latest polling results with both the White House and with members of Congress, it told the Reporter — and it has already found a willing partner with Gov. Brian Kemp (R., Ga.), who recently told the Ruthless Podcast that taking on tort reform is a top priority for him at home in Georgia.