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Millions of protesters gathered Saturday at 1,300 “Hands Off” demonstrations across the country as they called for the Trump administration to stop what organizers described as “the most brazen power grab in modern history.”
Protesters opposed the Department of Government Efficiency by staging demonstrations at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and in more than 1,000 places nationwide, asking for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to get their “hands off” Medicaid, Medicare, public lands, immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights, cancer research, and more.
“Turnout far exceeded expectations, underscoring the nationwide groundswell of opposition to Trump and Musk’s attempts to harm everyday people in America,” the organizers said in a shared statement.
DOGE has executed mass layoffs across the federal workforce, slashed contracts, and made strides to reduce the federal government’s real estate footprint. Meanwhile, in recent weeks, the administration ordered many immigrants to be deported from the U.S., cut funding for health programs, and took steps to shutter federal agencies.
Speaking to a crowd in D.C., Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin described Trump as “an economy-crushing dictator who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
The demonstrations come one day after the stock market closed with a bloodbath on Friday, as investors are spooked about the impact of Trump’s tariff plan that he unveiled Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, the White House said the president won his second-round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, Florida, and advances to the Championship Round on Sunday.
Trump tariffs: key points
Millions flocked to the streets across the country in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to health program funding, mass firings of federal workers and steps toward shuttering entire agencies.
“Hands Off” protests, organized by nearly 200 advocacy groups, cropped up in more than 1,000 locations across the U.S. and around the globe Saturday in what became the largest day of collective action since Trump was inaugurated for a second time.
The protests aimed to put a stop to the “most brazen power grab in modern history,” organizers said. Millions — from Los Angeles to London — marched to advocate for civil rights, healthcare, democracy, workers’ rights and LGBTQ+ rights that have been under “assault” by the Trump administration and GOP Congress members, they added.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 08:00
Ukrainian refugees accidentally told to leave in mistaken email
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 07:00
DOJ lawyers file emergency appeal on order requiring return of Maryland man mistakenly sent to El Salvador
The Trump administration is arguing that a federal judge didn’t have the authority to order the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, a Saturday filing reveals.
On Friday. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. by late Monday night. On Saturday, government lawyers filed an emergency appeal, requesting the court pause the judge’s order.
“A judicial order that forces the Executive to engage with a foreign power in a certain way, let alone compel a certain action by a foreign sovereign, is constitutionally intolerable,” the attorneys wrote in a filing in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appeals court asked Abrego Garcia’s lawyers to respond to the government’s filing by Sunday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.
The arrest and wrongful removal of a Salvadoran immigrant from the United States was unconstitutional “from the moment he was seized,” a federal judge told lawyers for Donald Trump’s administration on Friday.
“He was apprehended without legal basis … and without due process,” Judge Xinis said.
Alex Woodward has more on the story.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 06:00
Trump vows to ‘Make America Great Depression Again’ in SNL cold open spoof on tariffs announcement
“It’s actually even better than a plan, because it’s a series of random numbers, like the numbers on the computer screen in Severance,” he added. “You have no idea what the hell they mean, but I know what the numbers mean … They mean we’re gonna make America wealthy again. You know you’re gonna check your stock portfolio in a couple days and think ‘I’m almost too wealthy.’”
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 05:35
Justice Department lawyer placed on leave after questioning deportation of Maryland man
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 05:00
WATCH: Trump Tariffs: What happened to the markets overnight?
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 04:00
Fresh from telling Trump which national security officials to fire, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer reveals her new political wish
Loomer’s comments come after Trump fired several members of the National Security Council following a meeting with the conspiracy theorist during which she pressed the president to remove those she deemed disloyal.
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads the US Cyber Command, was dismissed on Thursday, along with NSA deputy director Wendy Noble.
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 03:30
Trump and Musk denounced as thousands protest in cities across US: ‘The politics of Mussolini’
Millions flocked to the streets across the country in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to health program funding, mass firings of federal workers and steps toward shuttering entire agencies.
“Hands Off” protests, organized by nearly 200 advocacy groups, cropped up in more than 1,000 locations across the U.S. and around the globe Saturday in what became the largest day of collective action since Trump was inaugurated for a second time.
The protests aimed to put a stop to the “most brazen power grab in modern history,” organizers said. Millions — from Los Angeles to London — marched to advocate for civil rights, healthcare, democracy, workers’ rights and LGBTQ+ rights that have been under “assault” by the Trump administration and GOP Congress members, they added.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 03:27
Tufts PhD student scores legal win against Trump administration
A federal judge has rejected a request from Donald Trump’s administration to throw out a Tufts University doctoral student’s legal challenge to her arrest and imprisonment.
Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk — who is currently imprisoned in a Louisiana detention center where several other international students are detained — was arrested outside her apartment in Massachusetts after masked and hooded plaint-clothes immigration agents grabbed her off the street.
On Friday, District Judge Denise Casper agreed to move her case to Vermont, where she was when her lawyers initially petitioned the court for her release. Her attorneys have argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement deliberately and secretly moved her case into another jurisdiction where the Trump administration would have a more favorable outcome.
Alex Woodward has the story.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 03:00
Musk lashes out at architect of Trump’s tariffs in first public comments about shock policy
Musk is typically vocal in his support and defense of the president, but has been quiet since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement that killed $2.5 trillion from the U.S. stock market — a loss of value that cost the Tesla CEO more than $30bn, according to CNBC.
On X, which Musk owns, he took swipes at Navarro, a Harvard-educated economist who advises Trump on trade. Navarro who was originally tapped for a spot in the White House by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is the author of books on China and the economic threats he says the nation poses to the U.S.
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 02:30
