S.On the bright winter day this week, a group of demonstrators were involved along a tree -lining road in the city of Palm Desert to demand that a member of the Republican Congress to Donald Trump and Eileon Musk stand burned to reshape the US government. “You work for us, not musk!” Read one sign. “Remember the section”, and another caution, as a mobile advertising board has come nearby, which includes the president and billionaire Mogul Technology, with the message: “When you parasitize your bank accounts, you are unloading.”
The group, which was tens of tens, chanted, when the driver of Tesla turned the white testea and placed on his horn. A smaller group of voters attempted to secure a meeting with a member of Congress, Ken Calvert, but he found the door of his regional office closed and the set curtains.
“He needs to hear from us, We peopleCollin Duffy Smith, 71, said, who helped organize a lunch demonstration as a volunteer in the progressive political advocacy group. The semi -retired trial lawyer and the college lecture waved a mark “No one elected Elon” as a series of cars that were honored. She insisted that she was not a “professional activist”, but she was “summoned to work” by a real fear that Trump, with Mousse next to his side, had placed democracy in the country in a wrong danger.
“I must believe, given the hideous measures signed with Sharpie on the personal freedoms of daily people, their civil rights, social service programs, and our help abroad, that someone has a conscience,” he said. “Once you start distinguishing the iceberg, other people with a right thinking will follow.”
Progressive activists and concerned voters spent the first week of the new Trump administration, pressing Republicans in the Congress to stand up to the president, hold, and seize their illegal authority.
In the offices of Congress, Tesla agents and city halls throughout the country, including heart conservative corners Georgiaand Weskonsen and OregonVoters registered their warning to the Republicans Suggested discounts to medicaidThe broad effect of the so -called “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” in Musk and the Trump administration efforts to dismantle federal agencies or completely eliminate basic services.
“They are mocking the constitution,” said Kathleen Hershey, 74, who wore a tangled pink pussy, has become a symbol of a movement to combat Trump during his first term to the palm desert protest. She carried the same mark she made for March women eight years ago, when the wave of discontent helped fuel democratic victories in the middle of the period 2018. Calver’s office did not respond to the comment.
One month after the new Trump administration, the opposition appears to be different from what it was during its first term.
But activists say that the protest week indicates a growing movement. “We are witnessing a lot of energy that occurred in 2016 and 2020 really because people feel upset by Musk and Trump’s behaviors,” said Ravi Mangla, the National Press Secretary of the Working Families Party (WFP). . “If the threat is not real and urgent at the time of the elections or earlier this year, it seems that it feels it is an urgent matter for people now.”
The group helped organize many protests this week, including Wednesday with parents, teachers, and students at the New York region of the New York region.
Among those who have challenged cold temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s proposal To cancel the Ministry of Education Milliata Corsley, 38, is the mother of four children, her children relied on special education services.
She said: “People who rely on the heaviest in these services are your workforce – the people who pump your gas in the fuel station in your town, but they are hardly able to live in your town.” Member of Congress. “Our children deserve the same education as your children.”
With a few exceptions, the Republicans remained silent as the president moved quickly to purify critics from the government, shoot federal prosecutors, raise democratic alliances and emphasize power on the authority to spend Congress. Despite the increasing reaction, they mostly expressed support for Musk’s Doge and its alleged goal of removing waste in the federal government.
The lawsuits filed by the Democratic Public Prosecutor, as well as unions and legal groups that were formed during the first administration of Trump, have stopped some of the measures taken by the administration and Douj. While Democrats in Congress, motivated by power and still reeling their losses in November, face increasing pressure to use all available financial lever – including the possibility of the government closing – to block the president’s agenda.
Musk has become a superior thing for liberals, many of whom spent the best part of the past decade in the operation of the opposition – or “resistance” – for Trump. The aggressive government cuts in Dog – and their arrival in sensitive taxpayers data – raised a flood of lawsuits and protests at the country level, where activists and Democrats are accused of musk of organizing “Maadi” and “illegal” of the federal government.
“The idea of a person who is not elected, and he has no authorization of leadership, which coincides with being the richest man on the ground, and takes unilateral actions outside the regular operations, he deeply feels with our values, with just a basic democracy. Mangla said:” The principles, as I think, start from A warning in the minds of many people. “
In a joint interview with Sean Hanity from Fox News, Trump praised Dog’s efforts while Musk cleaned his critics aside: “They will not complain a lot if we did nothing useful.” On the stage at the conservative political work conference this week, Musk celebrated “a saw for bureaucracy.”
But the new polling indicates that many Americans are not happy. A Washington poll after Barbis I found that twice the number of respondents refused to be accredited by musk that closes the federal agencies it sees unnecessary. Meanwhile, CNN wiped Find 62 % of the respondents – including 47 % of Republicans – believe that Trump has not done enough to treat a lot The highest interests of the AmericansHigh cost of daily commodities.
In Georgia this week, Trump supporters said they understood that it might take time to reduce prices, but they are still struggling to pay the price of basic necessities such as eggs and milk.
Democrats feel open to the channel of this frustration.
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In California, Democratic Christina Ghani, a former school board member, recently joined the race to take over the Republican Congress member Yong Kim in the province of Orange County. On the campaign’s path, Ghani said that she heard many stories from business owners and parents who “feel intimidation” from the administration’s threats to impose definitions and the enactment of comprehensive discounts.
She said, “They feel that they are not respecting.” These are real things that happen to real people. They are talking to our neighbors. This is not just something that happens in the capital. “
In a statement, Sam Oh, political advisor to Kim, said that the members of Congress “have deep roots in society and were always focused on meeting and listening to their components, fighting for her region, and providing results.”
andUri’s snake on Trump’s actions and musk not only in the liberal pockets and home battles that are likely to decide to control Congress, but also in the conservative places that supported the president in 2024.
In Georgia, a member of Congress Rich McCromic might expect a friendly reception in A. town hall He has Republican boycott severely. But a member of Congress was repeatedly beaten by the angry present because of the ruthless Musk approach to the federal government, but also on Trump’s baseless assertion that Ukraine began the war with Russia and the president’s social media center similar to a “king”.
One component told McCormick. Another present is interested in management Hundreds of workers refused In the centers of control and prevention centers based in Atlanta: “Why does a supposed, conservative party take such a radical, extremist and dirty approach in this?”
“I came here for a discussion,” said McC Corc Cormic with the end of the tense session. “I think many of you did not come here with good intention to conduct a discussion. I came here to scream at me and sing for me.”
Several Democrats in the House of Representatives have held personal events to address the effects of management discounts and propose government financing to Republicans. On Tuesday night, a municipal hall hosted by a member of the Democratic Congress, Eugene Vidman, of Virginia, directed a large crowd of federal workers who said they were living in fear that their job would be eliminated after that.
Congress Member Mark Desolneh, Democrat in California, It is scheduled A second municipal hall in light of the “overwhelming response” for the first time. Congress member Jim McGaven, a democratic in Massachusetts, said 500 people attended “coffee with your Congress member” last week, “maybe I had more at all.” In the city of Omaha and Iowa, Sinator Fairmont Bernie Sanders mobilized thousands as part of his “few” tour.
Sanders struck the road after joining the Democrats of the Senate in a “vote” throughout the night to protest the budget budget bill. The plan, a plan for the age of the main parts of the President’s Agenda for Migration and Energy, has been transferred to a semi -complete party vote early on Friday morning. But the backup option remains if the house is unable to enhance Trump’s preference for a “big and beautiful bill” that “implement the full American agenda”.
To pay for the parliament version, Republican negotiators think Severe decline discounts For social services, especially the Medicaid program, the government health insurance program for the poor and the disabled who said Trump recently said it will not be touched. With a barren majority only in the House of Representatives, the leaders of the Republican Party cannot afford any splits.
Mathematics, at the level of Kelly, 64 years old, is aware of her Palm Desert Protest on Thursday in the hope that Calrt, a member of the Republican Congress, will be convinced of opposing any discounts to Medicaid, or California, Medi-Cal.
For more than two decades, Level took care of her husband, who suffered from a brain injury that she had partially paralyzed. Without federal assistance, you are concerned: “I don’t know how I will be able to bear his prescriptions.”
As you fear the country. The mid -term elections will not take place until 2026. By that time, you wonder what will be saved from the federal government from Trump and Musk?
She said, “I hope that it is too late, people wake up.”