President Barack Obama’s approval rating has increased in the past two months, despite a growing scandal within the Department of Veterans Affairs that led to now-former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki’s resignation.
Forty-six percent of the public approves of Obama’s job as president, up five points from late April, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published Tuesday. Fifty-one percent disapprove.
His current approval rating matches numbers from January and March of this year.
Shinseki resigned last week, a decision supported by 65% of respondents in the poll. Shinseki, a veteran himself, was embroiled in a weeks-long scandal over the treatment of service members at the agency’s hospitals. Eighty-two percent of the public, the poll found, said the current situation at some of the military veteran hospitals is a “very serious” issue.









