Demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states. The rallies appeared peaceful, with no immediate reports of arrests.
Demonstrators voiced anger over the administration’s moves to fire thousands of federal workers, close Social Security Administration field offices, effectively shutter entire agencies, deport immigrants, scale back protections for transgender people and cut funding for health programs.
A demonstrator holds a sign while taking part in a protest against US President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk, in Los Angeles. (Photo: Reuters/Daniel Cole)Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign advocacy group, criticized the administration’s treatment of the LBGTQ+ community at the rally at the National Mall, where Democratic members of Congress also took the stage.
“We don’t want this America, y’all,” Robinson added. “We want the America we deserve, where dignity, safety and freedom belong not to some of us, but to all of us.”
Protests against Trump administration policies and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are being held nationwide in what organizers are calling a National Day of Action. (Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
Mayor Michelle Wu said she does not want her children to live in a world in which threats and intimidation are government tactics and values like diversity and equality are under attack.
Roger Broom, 66, was one of hundreds who rallied at the Statehouse in Columbus. He said he used to be a Reagan Republican but has been turned off by Trump.
Hundreds of people also demonstrated in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a few miles from Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, where he spent the morning at the club’s Senior Club Championship. People lined both sides of PGA Drive, encouraging cars to honk and chanting slogans against Trump.
“The list of what they need to keep their hands off of is too long,” Moran said. “And it’s amazing how soon these protests are happening since he’s taken office.”
In Charlotte, North Carolina, protesters said they were supporting a variety of causes, from Social Security and education to immigration and women’s reproductive rights.
With Associated Press
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