DEMOCRATS STAGED A DAY OF PROTESTS against President Trump and Elon Musk on Monday, even as the federal workforce cutbacks continued apace.
NewsNation’s Jackie Koppell reports that several thousand people gathered around the Capitol Reflecting Pool in Washington to protest the gutting of federal agencies.
Protesters carried homemade signs and chanted: “Where is Congress? Do your job!”
Organizers dubbed the gathering a "No Kings Day" protest.
Additional protests are planned this week at Tesla dealerships and outside lawmakers' offices on Capitol Hill.
Musk has been a ubiquitous presence since Trump returned to office, defending his actions to reporters in the Oval Office and battling critics on his social media platform X, as his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has burrowed into a growing number of federal agencies to implement sweeping workforce cuts.
Democrats are scrambling to coalesce around an opposition strategy after Trump thundered into office and completely reshaped the federal government in the first month of his second term.
There has been frustration on the left over the Democrats’ inability to settle on an effective plan of opposition or consistent message, even as the courts have stepped in to postpone some of Trump’s executive actions.
Democrats don’t have a true leader on the national stage after former President Biden and former Vice President Harris were relegated to one term in office.
Ken Martin, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will embark this week on a multistate tour aimed at getting the national party “out of D.C.” as it seeks to reconnect with the working class voters and racial minorities that moved to the right in the 2024 election.