{"id":132536,"date":"2025-04-05T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/hands-off-protests-against-trump-and-musk-are-planned-across-the-us-ap-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:30:18","slug":"hands-off-protests-against-trump-and-musk-are-planned-across-the-us-ap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/hands-off-protests-against-trump-and-musk-are-planned-across-the-us-ap-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hands Off!\u2019 protests against Trump and Musk are planned across the US – AP News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Protesters carry signs and chant slogans in protest to the policies of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across from the Federal Building in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Vogel, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Opponents of President Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> and billionaire Elon Musk<\/a><\/span> plan to rally across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration\u2019s actions<\/a><\/span> on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.
More than 1,200 \u201cHands Off!\u201d demonstrations have been planned by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and fair-elections activists. The protests are planned for the National Mall in Washington, D.C., state capitols and other locations in all 50 states.
The White House did not return an email message seeking comment about the protests. Trump has promoted his policies as being in the best interest of the U.S.
Protesters are assailing the Trump administration\u2019s moves to fire thousands of federal workers<\/a><\/span>, close Social Security Administration field offices<\/a><\/span>, effectively shutter entire agencies<\/a><\/span>, deport immigrants<\/a><\/span>, scale back protections for transgender people<\/a><\/span> and cut federal funding for health programs<\/a><\/span>.
Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has played a key role in government downsizing as the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. He says he is saving taxpayers billions of dollars.
Activists have staged nationwide demonstrations<\/a><\/span> against Trump or Musk multiple times since the new administration took power. But the opposition movement has yet to produce a mass mobilization like the Women\u2019s March in 2017<\/a><\/span>, which brought thousands of women to Washington, D.C., after Trump\u2019s first inauguration, or the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted in multiple cities<\/a><\/span> after George Floyd\u2019s killing in 2020.
Organizers say they hope Saturday\u2019s demonstrations will be the largest since Trump returned to office<\/a><\/span> in January.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Protesters carry signs and chant slogans in protest to the policies of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across from the Federal Building in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Vogel, File)WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}