{"id":134321,"date":"2025-04-19T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/anti-trump-rallies-held-across-the-u-s-to-protest-administrations-policies-cbs-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:01:01","slug":"anti-trump-rallies-held-across-the-u-s-to-protest-administrations-policies-cbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/anti-trump-rallies-held-across-the-u-s-to-protest-administrations-policies-cbs-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump rallies held across the U.S. to protest administration&#039;s policies &#8211; CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch CBS News<br \/>           <time datetime=\"2025-04-19T13:38:41-0400\">April 19, 2025 \/ 1:38 PM EDT<\/time>           \/ CBS\/AP         <br \/>Opponents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">President Trump&#8217;s<\/a> administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation&#8217;s democratic ideals.<br \/>The events ranged from rallies in midtown Manhattan and in front of the White House to a demonstration at a Massachusetts commemoration marking the start of the American Revolutionary War 250 years ago.<br \/>Thomas Bassford drove from his home, some three hours away in Maine, to witness the reenactment of the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/concord-old-north-bridge-maura-healey-massachusetts-250\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Battles of Lexington and Concord<\/a><\/span> and &#8220;the shot heard &#8217;round the world&#8221; on April 19, 1775, that heralded the start of the nation&#8217;s war for independence from Britain.<br \/>The 80-year-old retired mason said he believed Americans today are under attack from their own government and need to stand up against it.<br \/>&#8220;This is a very perilous time in America for liberty,&#8221; he said, as he first battles of the war for Independence with his partner, daughter and two grandsons. &#8220;I wanted the boys to learn about the origins of this country and that sometimes we have to fight for freedom.&#8221;<br \/>Elsewhere, protests were planned outside Tesla car dealerships against billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk and his role in downsizing the federal government, while still others organized more community-service events, such as food drives, teach-ins and volunteering at local shelters.<br \/>Protests have been occurring recently across the U.S. In early April, opponents of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Mr. Trump&nbsp;<\/a>and billionaire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Musk<\/a>&nbsp;rallied across the U.S. to protest the administration&#8217;s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.<br \/>More than 1,200 &#8220;Hands Off!&#8221; demonstrations were planned by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LGBTQ advocates, veterans and election activists.&nbsp;<br \/>Organizers say they&#8217;re protesting against what they view as Trump&#8217;s civil rights and constitutional violations, including efforts to deport scores of immigrants and scale back the federal government by firing thousands of government workers and effectively shuttering entire agencies.<br \/>Some of the events drew on the spirit of the American Revolutionary War, calling for &#8220;no kings&#8221; and resistance to tyranny.<br \/>Boston resident George Bryant was among those who turned out in Concord. He said he was concerned Trump was creating a &#8220;police state&#8221; in America as he held up a sign saying, &#8220;Trump fascist regime must go now!&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;He&#8217;s defying the courts. He&#8217;s kidnapping students. He&#8217;s eviscerating the checks and balances,&#8221; Bryant said. &#8220;This is fascism.&#8221;<br \/>In Washington, Bob Fasick said he came out to the rally by the White House out of concern about threats to constitutionally protected due process rights, as well as<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/federal-judge-doge-social-security-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"> Social Security<\/a><\/span> and other federal safety-net programs.<br \/>The Trump administration, among other things, has moved to shutter Social Security Administration field offices, cut funding for government health programs and&nbsp;<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transgender-rights-lawsuits-challenge-trump-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">scale back protections for transgender people.<\/a><\/span><br \/>&#8220;I cannot sit still knowing that if I don&#8217;t do anything and everybody doesn&#8217;t do something to change this, that the world that we collectively are leaving for the little children, for our neighbors is simply not one that I would want to live,&#8221; said the 76-year-old retired federal employee from Springfield, Virginia.<br \/>And in Manhattan, protesters rallied against continued deportations of immigrants from the steps of the New York Public Library.<br \/>&#8220;No fear, no hate, no ICE in our state,&#8221; they chanted to the rat-ta-tat of drums, referring to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<br \/>Melinda Charles, of Connecticut, said she was most worried about what she viewed as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;executive overreach,&#8221; citing his clashes with the federal courts to Harvard University and other elite colleges that he views as too liberal.<br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;re supposed to have three equal branches of government and to have the executive branch become so strong, I mean, it&#8217;s just unbelievable,&#8221; she said.<br \/>       <small>&copy; 2025 CBS Interactive Inc. 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