Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned in the USA. UU. On Saturday in what the organizers hope to be the unique biggest protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally of Elon Musk since the administration launched its quick effort to put a conservative seal in the government.
Thousands were in the center of Washington when the protests launched under shady skies and light rain. Organizers said Reuters It was expected that more than 20,000 people attend the demonstration in the National Mall.
Protests in the United States will allow Trump opponents to demonstrate their mass disgust in response to the Trump executive orders series. Some 150 activist groups have registered to participate, according to the event website. The protests are planned in the 50 most Canada and Mexico states.
“This is a huge manifestation that is sending a very clear message to the Republicans of musk and Trump and Congress and all the allies of Maga who do not want us not to want in our democracy, in our communities, in our schools and our friends and our neighbors,” said Ezra Levin, co -founder of indivisible, one of the groups that organize the events of Saturday.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Trump or musk.
The protesters were aligning the busy street of Connecticut Avenue in Washington DC, waiting for buses to take them to the center. They carried signs with slogans like ‘No Kings in the United States’ and ‘Deport Musk’.
Terry Klein, a retired biomedical scientist from Princeton, New Jersey, was among hundreds who met early in front of the stage under the Washington monument.
She said she led down to attend the demonstration to protest Trump’s policies about “everything from immigration to the duxes to rates this week, education.”
“I mean, our whole country is under attack, all our institutions, all the things that make what it is from the United States,” he said.
David Madden, a 75 -year -old army veteran and retired litigating lawyer, said he flew from Dayton, Ohio, to “demonstrate against the injustice that dominates this country, the institutions that are being stolen from the American people, the confusion in the courts, the fact that we have a population that I think is essentially racist.”
With Trump’s blessing, the Efficiency Team of the Musk Government Department has split through the United States government, eliminating more than 200,000 jobs from the Federal Force of 2.3 million. Sometimes, the effort has been casual and has forced the withdrawal of the necessary specialists.
On Friday, the internal tax service began to fire more than 20,000 workers, up to 25 percent of its ranks.
Several hundred people gathered on Saturday outside the headquarters of the Social Security Administration, a main objective of Dune, near Baltimore to protest the cuts to the agency that offers benefits to the elderly and disabled.
The mood was angry and challenging after the agency recently announced cuts of 7,000 employees and the end of telephone services to millions of claimants.
Doge members have been inside the building for weeks. Many in the multitude of retirees mostly contained handmade signs, including “Where has my country left?”, “Fire Doge!”, “Send musk to Mars” and “Hands outside the Social Security!”
Linda Falcao, who turns 65 in two months, told the crowd that he had been paying at the Social Security Fund since the age of 16.
“I’m terrified, I’m angry, I’m angry, I’m baffled, this could happen to the United States,” he said. “I love the United States and I am disconsolate. I need my money. I want my money. I want my benefits!” In response, the crowd sang: “It’s our money!”
The White House assistant press secretary, Liz Huston, played the position of the protesters that Trump aimed to reduce Social Security and Medicaid.
“The position of President Trump is clear: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will always protect for eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the posture of the Democrats is giving social security benefits, Medicaid and Medicare illegal foreigners, who breaks these programs and will crush the elderly American people,” Huston said in an email.
Trump returned to the position on January 20 with a flow of executive orders and other measures that critics say they are aligned with an agenda described by the 2025 project, a deeply conservative political initiative to remodel the government and consolidate the presidential authority.
His supporters have applauded Trump’s audacity as necessary to interrupt entrenched liberal interests.
Much of Trump’s agenda has been restricted by demands that claim that he has exceeded his authority with the attempts to fire public officials, deport immigrants and revenge inverse rights.
Pro-Palestinian groups that oppose the renewed military action of the ally of the United States Israel in Gaza and the repression of the Trump administration against the protests of the campus will also participate in Washington and will plan to carry out a march, the protest groups said in a statement.
Hours before the “hands outside!” The protests had to begin, hundreds of anti-trump Americans who live in Europe met in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris and London to express the opposition to Trump’s renewal change of US foreign and national policies.
About 200 people, mostly Americans, gathered in Paris’ Republique placeListen to speeches and shake banners that range from ‘resist the tyrant’, the ‘rule of law’ to ‘feminist for freedom, not fascism’ and ‘save democracy’.
“We have to show solidarity with all the demonstrations in a thousand cities today in the United States,” said Democrats spokesman Timothy Kautz, in Frankfurt. The protester José Sánchez said that Trump was a scammer who was destroying American democracy.
At the beginning of Trump’s first term in 2017, hundreds of thousands of people joined the march of women in Washington to demonstrate the opposition.
This year’s protests have been smaller, but activist leaders have planned to join for a large -scale event, Levin said.
Indivisible, which was formed after Trump’s first election in 2016, has worked with other liberal groups, including Moveon and Working Families Party, to unite progressive organizations throughout the country.
Among the organizations committed to participating are the International Union of Service Employees, a work union that represents about 2 million workers; Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ Defense Group in the United States; and the Greenpeace environmental group.
