WASHINGTON – There's some good news for President Donald Trump in the latest NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll.
The president's job-approval rating has ticked up to 43 percent, up 3 points from August and 71 percent of Americans back his deal with Democrats on hurricane relief funding and keeping the government open for three months.
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The president did receive low marks on most other topics polled, ranging from his handling of North Korea and his Twitter use to his reaction to the violence in Charlottesville.
Just a combined 33 percent of Americans believe he has accomplished a "great deal" or "fair amount" as president.
The president does rate higher than the four top congressional leaders. Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi has 25 percent approval, with Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at 24 percent approval, Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer at 18 percent and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell viewed positively by only 11 percent of the American public.
The poll also shows that 53 percent of Americans want Congress to vote to continue the DACA program, which shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Twenty-three percent wish congress would take no action so the program ends.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sept. 14-18 of 900 adults -- nearly half reached by cell phone -- has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
Among the 741 registered voters who were interviewed, the margin of error is plus-minus 3.6 percentage points.