What gov agencies are popular/which aren't?

Call me silly but I LOVE the IRS! I'd rather be dragged in for questioning by an IRS agent than some smartass from the FBI.

Out of the Depts

Indeed, Veterans Affairs was the only service that became more favorable in the public eye over that period. Knocking the Postal Service off of its (somewhat inexplicable) top spot, the National Park Service, with all its associated canyons and critters, was America’s favorite federal agency in 2023 — 81% of respondents had a favorable view and just 7% had an unfavorable view of the agency.

NASA — no stranger to both good and bad press in recent times — saw a slight decline in overall positive attitudes over the same timeframe. Net negative views of both the Department of Education and the IRS were recorded for the first time in last year’s survey, and although the tax-collecting IRS was, unsurprisingly, the least popular agency in 2023, what is perhaps surprising is that it was once much more popular: in 2019, respondents had a net favorable view of the agency by +15 percentage points.